Word: ticketeer
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...pair so appealing and yet so unlikely that you had to wonder what had brought them together: chemistry or ambition? "Ladies and gentlemen," Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein proclaimed as they swept into the packed theater, "I'd like to introduce you to the first, great 2008 bipartisan presidential ticket--I'll let them figure out the order to that--Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain...
...suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said that Menezes' clothes and behavior at the station had added to their suspicions. But in documents leaked from an ongoing inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, other witnesses gave a different account. These documents...
...ticket game in May, rowdy Dodgers fans reportedly caused chaos in each of these ways EXCEPT...
Everyone says it's the show you gotta see. But it won't be easy. Months before its Oct. 27 opening night, a revival of Neil Simon's 1965 comedy, The Odd Couple, this time with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, has amassed $20 million in ticket sales--the highest advance take ever for a Broadway nonmusical...
When the hard stuff sold well (hard stuff, in any medium, always does), the record labels, never bastions of original thought, asked for more. Soon rappers who had never got a speeding ticket were referring to themselves as pimps and hustlas, and what had started as ghetto reporting with a touch of caricature metastasized into caricature with no tether to reality. The result was a torrent of albums about the joys of acquisitiveness (bling, if you must), consequence-free violence and compliant women...