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Product placement doesn't get much better than this. Stores pay nothing for being featured on the show; they simply agree to let cameras in and provide merchandise for free. So will the producers wise up and start charging for the valuable airtime? "They're giving me a location, and they're giving us product," says Queer Eye's coordinating producer, Marcia Turner. "Why would I charge them? That would be horrible." --By Sora Song
...Abandoning his cultural kung fu roots may have proved to be a wise business move for Chan?Arclight, a U.S. film distributor based in Australia, has already bought the movie's international and U.S. distribution and licensing rights for a seven-figure sum. (Chan's 1998 Jackie Chan vehicle Who Am I? and Gen-X Cops were both distributed overseas by Columbia TriStar.) Like his previous action flicks, Heroic Duo goes for the mainstream jugular, but this time Benny Chan devotes enough screen time to character development so that you care (slightly) about these characters before they're blown...
Wilson seemed like a wise choice for the mission. He had been a U.S. ambassador to Gabon and had actually been the last American to speak with Saddam before the first Gulf War. Wilson spent eight days sleuthing in Niger, meeting with current and former government officials and businessmen; he came away convinced that the allegations were untrue. Wilson never had access to the Italian documents and never filed a written report, he told TIME. When he returned to Washington in early March, Wilson gave an oral report about his trip to both CIA and State Department officials. On March...
...baby boomers like Neese are hit up for cash virtually every day. Consider that there are 850,000 nonprofits, or 501(c)(3) organizations, across the country and that an estimated 40,000 new charities are formed each year, according to Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, an Arlington, Va., charity-watchdog group...
...Earle has always been a little weird. A close observer of Texas politics e-mailed this description of him: "Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...