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...summer for those orders were only about 5%, a big improvement over the nerve-jangling 10% to 15% rates last year. Comparably low cancellation rates are starting to register for the first quarter of 2003. All this has left relatively little ad time available in the so-called scatter market, where advertisers who prefer to buy time at the last minute come to shop. The scarcity, combined with surprisingly strong demand, has sent prices soaring...
...premiums of between 25% and 40% in scatter" above the prices fetched last spring, says Joseph Abruzzese, the former president of sales for Viacom's CBS Television, who just left to take over ad sales at cable's Discovery Networks, a unit of Discovery Communications. And that was after CBS leveraged last season's muscular prime-time performance into 10% to 12% up-front rate increases, especially for such younger-skewing hits as Survivor, Everybody Loves Raymond...
...trying to open a door labeled “pull” by pushing as hard as he can. The joke is simple, straight to the point and excruciatingly true. Few will deny that gifted children, for all their intellectual and academic talents, are often some of the most scatter-brained and socially inept people imaginable...
Jack the butcher (Michael Caine) is dead. His three pals and his adopted son (beautifully played by Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone) bibulously set forth to scatter his ashes in the sea. As they drive, flashbacks inform us of a life richer in complexity, coincidence and moral confusion than we might expect from a humble shopkeeper. Schepisi also wrote this patient adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker prizewinning novel, in which wry humor and even a certain sexiness break through the reserve of a rueful, realistic, but finally emotionally rewarding film. --By Richard Schickel
...dance extravaganza, which starts at 10 p.m. For one night, the cavernous, and usually vacant, Royal Hall of Industries is transformed into a dance club with more laser lights and go-go boys than a Britney Spears concert. Thousands dance to one beat in the main hall, the rest scatter to smaller pavilions with different themes or spill out into the open-air quadrangle. Volunteer dancers?men wearing tight pink shorts, women in body-clinging vinyl and hairy guys in leather?gyrate on stage to work the crowd into a bacchanalian frenzy. Pop stars perform throughout the night?and morning...