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This "property" (one wouldn't want to dignify it with any grander term) comes complete with a gimmick: No man - not even among the extras - is ever seen or heard in it. The playwright's original text can be described as a hard-working woman's revenge on New York's idle rich, wasting their days on manicures, fashion shows and, above all, gossip. In updating the original, English - who was responsible for the estimable TV series Murphy Brown - has been fairly faithful to her source. Once again, the husband of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) begins an affair with Crystal...
...just hours before the verdict against him was handed down, Samak wasn't about to offer an easy way out. On Tuesday morning, the Premier defiantly toured a vegetable and meat market in the country's northeast, a culinary gimmick that echoed his T.V. cooking-show appearances. Still, even if he is voted back to office by members of the ruling coalition, Samak still faces other legal hurdles. His party faces possible dissolution by the courts because of an electoral-fraud conviction of its former deputy. And a defamation suit against Samak, which could carry a jail sentence, is also...
Those supporters, now reduced to the dwindling ranks of the opposition, have vowed to resist the move to impeach Musharraf. "This is a gimmick," says Mushahid Hussain, a prominent senator and close ally of the president. "If they are going to open up a new front, then they've raised stakes and all bets are off. I don't think they would have control of the consequences of their own decisions. They're getting into something that they have no capacity to deal with...
...Best Gimmick: City of Ember train. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle at Comic-Con if you're not one of the handful of movies or shows with a built-in fanbase. The folks at Fox Walden found a way around the competition while promoting City of Ember, a family fantasy based on a book and starring Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan. They chartered a train from L.A. to San Diego and packed it with journalists and bloggers who got a look at some footage, cool props and art, and lots of one-on-one time with...
...whirlwind obstacle course of a finale. As a bonus, the recording includes a sprightly performance of a quartet that Beethoven arranged from his Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 14, No. 1. Even in the lofty classical-record business, it helps to have a gimmick...