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...that the writers picked the worst time in recent years to threaten a strike. Sure, the already-soft ad market gave them a little leverage over the networks, who need to announce a fall schedule to advertisers in a couple of weeks. But writers are now negotiating with multi-tentacled entertainment Borgs that are well-positioned to survive a strike for quite a while longer than the writers can. Especially with all those cheap, fast, non-writer-dependent reality series doing so nicely out there...
Inside the cover of the multi-colored festival guide is an enthusiastic greeting from the Arts First Planning Group: “Welcome to Arts First 2001! The purpose of Arts First is to celebrate undergraduates and faculty in the arts and galvanize the arts community. What does Arts First mean to you?” Rudenstine responds that “this celebration of student and faculty creativity and talent has been one of the greatest pleasures of my tenure as President” and his co-instigator Lithgow says that “you are going to love...
...solve the Hollywood writers strike overnight with the Tito Plan. Instead of paying screenwriters millions of dollars for their mostly sophomoric work, the studios could get multi-millionaires to pay them big bucks to produce their equally jejune screenplays. And why not have billionaires pay to star in the movie itself? This way, the studios would be able to make a profit even before the film starts shooting and then avoid all that tricky accounting to show that it lost money. And like being a President or an astronaut, being an actor doesn't require any particular credentials either...
...spend more on their rosters. Sure, the Yankees make money despite an obscenely high payroll, but what about the clubs in smaller towns? Why shouldn't the penny-pinching Kansas City Royals, for example, allow Billy Crystal to pitch the first inning for $100,000 or give some multi-millionaire baseball-player-wannabe three at-bats for the same price? They don't win many games anyway; and who knows, the fans might really take to it. I've been at basketball games where the crowd yells loudest when the guy at half-time misses the million dollar half-court...
Megara walked the audience through her colorful, multi-flavored tub of wares, which included everything from run-of-the-mill items like condoms and lubricants to more unusual objects like vibrators disguised as lipstick...