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...Fosse had a pop-culture counterpart, it was Billy Wilder, Hollywood's cynic in chief. Indeed, his Double Indemnity would have made a perfect Fosse show, for both men were drawn to seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have...
...craze is only going to get wilder: last week Diamond Multimedia of San Jose, Calif., announced it will ship hardware next month that plays MP3 recordings. The $199 device, called Rio, is as small as a deck of cards and plugs into your PC, where you can fill it up with an hour's worth of tunes that you've downloaded. Then you can detach it and take it anywhere...
...average monthly movement of a stock--up or down--doubles, steady investors enjoy a 7% greater return over just two months. "What really makes it work is that the stock market goes up over time," he says. But even in a market whose average is flat for a time, wilder price gyrations lead to better overall returns. For that reason, dollar-cost averagers are better off in volatile investments, such as index funds and technology stocks...
...four songs, by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, propel the plot with lyric efficiency. But then, at the end, the racy Eddie Murphy spirit that has been held in check during the film explodes with a Motownish rave-up, True to Your Heart, that cascades over the closing credits. The song doesn't have much to do with the girl-power theme of this briskly enchanting film, but it's a perky parting gift from the Disney folks. The R.-and-B. group 98[degrees] and Stevie Wonder trade harmonic and harmonica riffs with some sassy horns, and euphoria saturates...
...loss was immediately felt," said R. Alan Ezekowitz, the current Wilder professor of pediatrics and Medearis' successor...