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...waste of potential and income the community is unlikely to accept. Over time, so-called microeconomic reforms can improve the nation's supply side. But it won't make any difference in this phase of history - such reforms take years to bed down and for the gains to flow through...
...it news if a man stands up to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...
Then Freston's people paid a hefty $9 million, plus an extra $7 million for a two-picture production deal, for MTV Films to purchase the rights to Hustle & Flow, the inspiring tale of a Memphis street dude with rap-star dreams (think Rocky, except that he's a pimp). Industry savants saw that buy as a clue to the new direction. Freston was the face of triumphant youth culture--the kid whose stuffy parents have handed him not just the keys to the car but their credit cards and the deed to their home...
...Freston is old enough to be the granddad of his target ticket buyer. He was in Park City, Utah, he says, at the invitation of Robert Redford, whose Sundance Channel is owned by Viacom. When at a film festival, see a film. Hence his presence at Hustle & Flow. "I couldn't believe the articles--'God, he stood up when the movie was finished!' There were 1,000 people standing up in the room. I was one of the last guys to stand," Freston says. "And I played no part in the negotiations other than to know that they were going...
...unrepentant drug addicts. So what do mediocre poster children do when they turn around and realize they, indeed, have kids of their own to feed? Naturally, they release a bloated greatest hits double CD, promoted via a tour reuniting the original four members for the first time since the flow of groupies dried...