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...customs inspector, his navy shirt defiantly crisp in the pounding heat, peers at the paperwork and peppers the man with questions. The driver answers stoically, in halting English. Scrap aluminum. Picked it up in Quebec, due at a recycler in Missouri. Heading down I-75, hoping to get there tonight. The inspector appraises the man's story and body language and waves him on for final processing...
...high-stakes battles are more likely to be over the people nobody knows--until they get caught up in front-page news stories. "Old-world bookers say, 'Look at my Rolodex--I know Henry Kissinger,'" says Bruce Perlmutter, senior executive producer of CNN's new Connie Chung Tonight. "New-world bookers get that what it's about now is who isn't in your Rolodex. They know how to track people down." A recent buffet of tabloid stories--kidnappings, a mine rescue, twins joined at the head--has put these bookers to the test and ratcheted up the competition. Last...
...million. More illuminating: Buffett advertised himself as a buyer, telling the Wall Street Journal that "if I got a call this afternoon and somebody offered me A, B or C--securities, assets or a business--and it looked like a good idea, we could sign up a deal tonight. We move fast, and we always have cash...
...older, fuller three-CD opus, "The Sun Record Collection" (on the ever-dependable Rhino label). The BMG set has some strange omissions: there's no Howlin' Wolf, whom Phillips called the greatest artist he ever recorded ("This is where the soul of man never dies"); no "Good Rockin' Tonight"; and, criminally, no "Great Balls of Fire," the Jerry Lee Lewis number that ... well, I'll save those superlatives for later...
...Answer to Hound Dog)," whose composition was credited to one Sam Phillips, was so direct a copy of the Leiber-Stoller hit that Sun had two pay Lion Records two cents a copy. (All this and much more itemized in Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins' book "Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n Roll...