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...roadster, a minivan that no degree of swishy styling will sex up. Of course, carmakers try their best to convince consumers otherwise, producing performance editions, limited editions, two- and four-door flavors of the same model. It's done for the same reason we have Cherry Coke and a gazillion spinoffs of Law & Order ? everyone wants to maximize their "brand value." And this is especially true if you're in a capital intensive business like auto manufacturing, and your products stay on the market for years before they're refreshed...
...greatest musician that ever walked the planet," says Harris, who starred in and directed a 2000 biopic of painter Jackson Pollock. "I'm an actor from New Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning to conduct. "I'm trying to figure out spiritually, intellectually where Beethoven's musicianship comes from," Harris says. Despite the demands, the role...
...late March, all sorts of sonorous media drumbeating began. Apparently Stephen King had failed to clear the field, and there were a gazillion new Red Sox books coming out. (Mercenary opportunists!) There was a new Sox HBO documentary on reversing the curse, there was a new Sox feature film starring Drew and Jimmy and directed by the Farrellys (true fans, at least, those Providence boys). And there was, principally, the opening day bash at the Stadium approaching: Sunday night, April 3, nationwide, prime time. The players had barely finished their stretches, and it felt like October all over again...
...Howard Dean, whose presidential campaign got derailed by endless replays of a barbaric yawp, go from public laughingstock to party leader? The new Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) chairman started off with several advantages, including a loyal base that wrote a gazillion letters on his behalf and a lack of serious competition from other prominent Dems. Some Democratic Governors sought an anybody-but-Dean candidate, but neither former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey nor Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm could be persuaded to run. Likewise, Iowa's Tom Vilsack decided that being Governor and D.N.C. chairman at the same time would complicate...
Those who remain are so polarized (l00 liberals to 50 centrists to eight gazillion right-wingers) that, this year, the so-called civility retreat—a weekend in March devoted to bringing elected representatives together across party lines—has been cancelled for lack of interest...