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...demanding deeper wage-and-benefit cuts from hourly workers. A confrontation over labor issues is looming, in fact, since GM's contract with the United Auto Workers (U.A.W.) expires in September 2007. Until then, Wagoner seems to be gambling that the company can stay afloat via a series of tune-ups, ranging from having workers bear more health-care costs (annual savings: $3 billion) to eliminating weak models and launching redesigned SUVs and pickups next year--and praying that high gasoline prices don't bog down the plan. Plenty of skeptics believe Wagoner's plan is too limited...
...show plays also true to the showbiz verities. Gaudio: "A tune pops in my head," and eureka, it's "Sherry." The bosses don't want to record a Gaudio composition. They get it played, finally (after a buildup longer than the one for Mother Bates in Psycho), and voila, it's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," Valli's longest-lived hit and, musically, one of Gaudio's least surprising Seasons creations: standard, nicely orchestrated Europop, a plain old love song, with no grudges or class animosities. (But don't listen to me. It's among the ten most...
...live reminiscences from loved ones and shrewdly capitalized on the new medium's capacity for intimacy, chronicling riveting, often weepy stories of the famous (Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe) and sometimes the less famous (Holocaust survivor Hanna Bloch Kohner). More recently, he developed such shows as Name That Tune and The People's Court, the pop-culture phenomenon that in 1981 made California judge Joseph Wapner a household name...
...gravitas. Perhaps this should not shock; Colombus is the auteur behind the “Home Alone” series.Columbus never devises a satisfactory way to translate the conventions of musical theatre into the cinematic idiom: “Rent” doesn’t embrace its show-tune cheesiness in the manner of Rob Marshall’s “Chicago,” nor does it opt for cinematic seriousness like Bille August’s “Les Miserables.” Either would have been preferable to Columbus’ middle...
...students—many of whom later wanted their money back. The Snoop Dogg fiasco wasted more than $7,000 and the poorly-attended Jim Breuer show blew through about twice that. Then, of course, there’s Wyclef Jean, who didn’t play to the tune of about $30,000.The purpose of this column, however, is not to simply list these wasteful expenditures as so many have done before. Hallow calls for greater accountability and student input after each screw-up have done nothing, save encourage the Council to futilely try to redeem itself only...