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...upfront presentation to advertisers at Madison Square Garden opened with a performance by Lenny Kravitz, an especially apt choice given how much TV-commercial licensing of his songs has done for his career. I'm not quite sure who gets really excited anymore about Kravitz, who's less a rock star than a celebrity who does a believable rock-star impersonation. Nonetheless, among the business-suited throng packing the Garden, more than one middle-aged white ad man was doing that little baby-boomer head bob and tapping his feet to "Fly Away," to show the young associates gunning...
...introduced the lineup, wisely, without dwelling on the problems of the past but rather saying that the important thing was the programs to air in the "months and years ahead." (Years! Isn't that cute!) Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, doing a monologue in the middle of the upfront, joked that the reason ABC passed on the opportunity to air "The Apprentice" was that "it hit too close to home... 'You're fired! You're fired...
...Dartmouth returns upfront, probably the best forwards in the league,” Mazzoleni said...
...response to the charges that the council was not being upfront about its motivations for pushing for UKA, Mahan said after the meeting that while “it’s definitely a convenience issue, the safety issue trumps all others...
...after the elections. But we already know that Bush launched a war that he had failed to justify—that was never a secret to begin with. You have to hand it to him: Bush’s most egregiously dishonest actions are the ones he is most upfront about...