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...Live CEO Randy Phillips dismissed those worries in an interview with Billboard. "Michael's in incredible physical shape, he's got tremendous stamina, he's been working out aerobically preparing for this, and he is totally engaged," he said. Phillips also claimed that AEG was well insured for the event because Jackson had passed a physical "with flying colors...
...often oversimplified into black musicians creating and white musicians stealing. But black musicians always kept up with what the white musicians were doing, just the way that white musicians tried to keep up with what the black musicians were doing. By 1963, the pop charts really were intensely integrated. Billboard magazine stopped having a separate pop and R&B chart because the two charts were virtually identical. And the Beatles single-handedly re-segregated those charts. The Beatles hit white America like the biggest thing to happen maybe ever, and they hardly hit black America...
...Advertising. Today the language of advertising is dominated by the notion of impressions: how many times an advertiser can get its brand in front of a potential customer's eyeballs, whether on a billboard, a Web page or a NASCAR hood. But impressions are fleeting things, especially compared with the enduring relationships of followers. Successful businesses will have millions of Twitter followers (and will pay good money to attract them), and a whole new language of tweet-based customer interaction will evolve to keep those followers engaged: early access to new products or deals, live customer service, customer involvement...
...curriculum, not turn Harvard into a trade school for future artists or actors. It also stressed visual literacy over practical skill, claiming that without “the twin arts of perception and discrimination” the educated man might be overly swayed by “photograph, the billboard, the cinema, the picture magazine, and now television...
...association has recently bought billboard space outside Philadelphia and Charleston, S.C., as well as somewhat obscure locales, like Highway 95, near Moscow, Idaho. That location was particularly appealing, says Roy Speckhardt, the group's executive director, partly because of its proximity to two major universities in Idaho and Washington State. "There's a great mix of progressive, secular and religious people there," he says. Similar ads are being planned for about 20 cities, including Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles. There is a push to get another spokesman to champion the cause. "I see this movement as a civil rights...