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...commercial development. With only one salaried actor and minimal sets and costumes (unless you are Dame Edna), those shows are cheaper to produce than full-scale plays. "You've got a lot less risk with a one-person show and pretty much the same opportunity to make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone's show, Laugh Whore. And since many of the shows are built around stars with a presold audience, they're easier to promote. "We've got to be realistic," says Hal Luftig, the lead producer of Whoopi. "We're asking people...
...love the gansta image. I love that music. I bought 50 Cent's album on the first day. I bought Jay-Z's album on the first day. If it wasn't for that, there would be no me. It's the yin and the yang. I'm really a real person, a personality that someone you go to school with might have. You know somebody that's like...
...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Mich. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, it became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
There are exceptions. Democrats are more likely to go to art museums. They also skew toward cognac, which usually costs more than whiskey, the G.O.P. choice. Party demographics help explain that difference: black men have appreciated cognac since the 1970s, even before Jay-Z embraced it, while whiskey has a long history in red states like Kentucky. Sure enough, at the G.O.P. Convention this year, the most requested drink was Maker's Mark whiskey. The Democratic winner was too close to call. "The Kahl�a White House Russian was a big favorite with the ladies, Courvoisier XO cognac with...
...condemns Israel for jay-walking, but doesn’t condemn other countries for murder,” he said...