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...longstanding favorite is the Night of a Hundred Stars, a fund-raiser for Martin Scorsese's Film Preservation Foundation. The night is as curiously old-fashioned as its name, and all the more charming for it. The attendees are an odd grab-bag of celebrities. Some are legitimately A-list names having a B-list year out of the Academy limelight. Others are B-list names with A-list aspirations. And some are just from the fringes of some People magazine "Where Are They Now?" list, TV stars whose aura sparkles just on Nick at Nite. The hippest partygoers...
...happen? Entrepreneurs have certainly come in for their share of the blame. But they are quick to point to other culprits. "Look at those start-ups that followed the advice their investors gave them," says ihavemoved.com's Komninos. "A year ago investors were saying forget profits, go out and grab as many markets as possible. Now, those backers are saying they don't like the way the businesses have developed and won't fund them anymore...
...have ricocheted through the Internet community over the past year. Coming under particular fire: incubators, which invest in Internet companies at seed capital stage, offering them everything from management advice to office space in exchange for equity. Incubators have drawn criticism for funding the unfundable in their rush to grab deals - and then abandoning their charges. Thunders Piol of Pino Venture Partners: "The people behind these incubators that sell illusions should all be put in jail...
...ship, and don't serve them fish. But that's just what the cruise-ship industry is trying to do. The industry built a fleet of leviathans in the '90s, which led to a glut and depressed prices last year. So now it has launched an aggressive campaign to grab a piece of the more than $20 billion corporate-meeting and incentive (or employee-reward) business...
...thus an understandably unnerving prospect. The play takes as its protagonists Presley and Haley Stray (Matthew D. Johnson ’02 and Catherine B. Gowl ’02), two 28-year-old siblings stuck in a permanent childhood. Gowl’s Haley is the first to grab the audience’s attention, shifting back and forth between petty child and fussy matron in a fine schizophrenic act. The production yields no funnier image than the pajama-clad Gowl perched on a plastic-covered easychair like a demented socialite, articulating her concerns about candy distribution...