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...elegant curtain of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House rose to reveal a seedy-looking bar. A drummer rapped out four crisp rim shots, and three dancers in bell-bottom trousers charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music...
...light of these market trends, Microsoft is shifting its development focus to a new breed of device that blends the power of a PC with the ease of use and gee-whiz factor of a consumer electronics gadget. Gates, in fact, says the executive changes will allow him to spend more time with his nerdy brethren, working on "architectural breakthroughs" for such devices, including TV set-top boxes, smart phones and tablet computers...
...this corporate attrition appears to be accelerating. Last week's exit of Steve Burke, president of Disney subsidiary ABC Broadcasting, was the latest in a string of departures in recent months, including those of top strategist Lawrence Murphy, chief financial officer Richard Nanula and TV whiz Geraldine Laybourne. The losses of Burke and Laybourne were particularly surprising. Burke was considered a favored Eisner protege, and Laybourne, who before joining Disney turned Nickelodeon into one of the hottest channels on cable, looked like the perfect choice for developing the company's numerous disparate television properties. So Hollywood is still whispering...
Rock stars and child stars getting busted for drugs: this is not unusual. But, gee whiz, little buddy, you too? BOB DENVER, enshrined in the psyches of a generation of TV watchers as the emblem of clownish naivete, a fawn facing down the elements on an uncharted desert isle with nothing but innocence...well, you get the picture. Gilligan got busted for weed possession. The narcs caught Denver after he signed for a package containing about 25 grams of marijuana sent to him mail order, and officers searched his home, finding more marijuana and "marijuana paraphernalia." Sounds more like...
...hubris is characteristic of the Harvard-educated computer whiz who once listed his IQ on his resume: 214. Born out of wedlock to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, Unz went on to win first prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and, after majoring in theoretical physics and ancient history, studied quantum gravitation with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. In 1988 he formed a financial-software firm, Wall Street Analytics, which made him wealthy, and began funding conservative think tanks. Unz, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household, says, "America is successful because we have assimilated immigrants...