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...read memoirs? I have read some. I don't read a lot of memoirs. I'm very narrow in all my interests. I am cut from the same cloth as my older, Aspergian brother and probably Aspergian father. If I could, I would eat the same exact thing every day. It would be just protein bars and nothing else, no deviation ever. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Does being set in your ways extend to your writing process? I would imagine so. I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Week Window One of Sony's first marketing moves was to set a deadline for the film public, proclaiming that This Is It would play in theaters for a two-week run. Can't you just feel the sense of urgency? "It has event-ized this thing in a huge way," marvels an industry exec. The prospect of an end date lit a fire under the devoted and even the Jackson-ambivalent. Setting a deadline "creates a sense of scarcity for a major event that you have to see," says Harry Medved, a spokesman for the movie-ticketing website Fandango.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing This Is It: How Sony Created a Global Event | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Quick Turnaround "The Champagne loses its fizz the longer you wait," says Gaydos. "Sony wants to get this thing out while people are still talking about it, while it's still a phenomenon. It will only diminish." Although the frenzy over Jackson's death has abated, there was a clear mandate to honor - some might say tap into - the international outpouring of grief. "It's not about exploiting," Ortega says. "Every corner of this planet, people were reaching out saying, 'Show us something.' " Ortega was originally asked to edit the 120 hours of mixed rehearsal film for a release around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing This Is It: How Sony Created a Global Event | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...editor of Cannabis Culture magazine, told the 
Toronto Star. If that's the biggest complaint the Vancouver Olympics 
generate, the organizers will have notched a huge victory. Nevertheless,
 it's probably best that they keep Michael Phelps a pool's length away from
 that thing at all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympic-Torch Relay | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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