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...comedy and performance of all kinds. Hill began his career performing in one-act plays in New York City, and now alternates between acting, writing, and producing. Between acting gigs, he has recently helped to write and produce “Brüno” for Sacha Baron Cohen, and soon will be writing and producing the film adaptation of “21 Jump Street...
...shoo-in. When Li Ning opened its Portland retail store to the public for an hour on Feb. 15 for its grand opening, sneaker heads lined up for five hours to be among the first to own a pair of BD Dooms, basketball shoes named after NBA point guard Baron Davis. Jay Li admits they lined up "not because of Li Ning but because we have a world-class basketball shoe." (It probably also helped that Baron Davis himself was in the store giving autographs.) Priced between $99.99 and $149.99, a pair of BD Dooms does not come cheap...
...These days, the company works with NBA stars like Baron Davis (who has a signature Li Ning shoe, the BD-1) and Shaquille O'Neal (who is under a five-year contract with the brand). But it still maintains its value-for-money approach to marketing - recently making a big push, for example, into badminton, a sport largely ignored in the West but played and watched by some 300 million Chinese. Li Ning - sponsored shuttlecock star Lin Dan graces billboards and TV ads around China, and the firm opened a "badminton paradise" last year in Singapore, its first international outlet...
Post-polling, the committee begins to meet to discuss possible speakers. The initial range of potential invites is long and eclectic; past speakers have included Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Conan O’Brien ’85 and Sacha Baron Cohen in character...
...throw politics into the mix and, inevitably, it will remain unrequited. The plot of composer Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” explores political intrigue and its ruinous influences on the lives of happy people. This haunting opera pits the police baron Scarpia against lovers Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi, a singer and painter respectively. Set in Napoleonic Italy, the story will be brought to life by the Lowell House Opera—albeit with a twist...