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...days of yore when 45 r.p.m. records and LPs thrived simultaneously. "People go in and buy the single and a couple of other tracks, then they come back and buy the whole album. We're not frightened of any of that. I don't believe that the album unit will just disappear. Our job is to make albums people want." In the brave new digital world, one truth of the industry's economics remains unchanged. Typically only 5 to 15% of a label's artists - the megastars - bring in the cash to pay for the rest. That's why artist...
...true gentleman... I hate to say sweetheart because it makes me sound like a female, but he is wonderful to be around. He is joking with the staff." Whittington was expected to be taken out of intensive care Monday afternoon and moved to a trauma step-down unit in preparation for discharge...
...part, Cheney visited Whittington in the intensive care unit of the hospital on Sunday night and said through an aide afterward, "I was pleased to see that Harry's doing well. He's in good spirits." The Vice President flew down to Texas on Friday after working at the White House, his office said. He remained there Sunday but did not hunt, his office said, before flying back to Washington on Sunday night. He joined Bush on Monday afternoon during an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, but left before reporters were allowed in for questions...
...MAKE SURE PEOPLE AREN'T JUST TELLING YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR? Right now, if we walked down [to the State Department's new media-monitoring unit], you'd see live what's happening on Arab TV. We have a young man who's watching the blogs, the Web chats. So when I walk in, I instantly can know what's being said. That unit publishes a daily rapid-response report. It goes to all the Cabinet Secretaries and all our ambassadors...
Where have all the pixels gone? That's what cartoon mavens were asking about the Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio...