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Iraq War documentaries play to empty seats. It's a tough, tough sell. I'm a big boy, and I know this business will break my heart. We got named to the shortlist for the Oscar, but we could not find a distributor for our film. Everybody walked away from it. Then we were able to arrange a deal with Landmark Theaters, where they agreed to roll it out. Ellen [Spiro] and I would do a Q&A opening night, and the place would be jampacked. It was glorious. And the next day there'd be seven people...
...tripled that number to 10.8 million and also logged its highest numbers for revenue, traffic and registered users. "We have seen a lot more deals and discounts this year happening across the site," says founder and CEO Manish Chandra. Likewise, Etsy, a site where community members buy and sell handmade goods, pulled in $8.4 million in gross merchandise sales in October 2008, compared with $2.96 million during the same period in 2007. That's a gain that can elicit holiday cheer...
...Tara Ebbert, 38, a real estate agent in Roseville, Calif., was forced to put her house on the market earlier this year. It has yet to sell, but she figures she will lose most or all of the $75,000 she put down on the house when she bought it a few years ago. "It is what it is," says Ebbert. "It's a part of life and I am not going to dwell...
...Tuesday's mayoral race, Gaydamak - once the prohibitive favorite because of his lead in campaign financing - has had a streak of bad luck. Like many Russian oligarchs, he was hit hard by the global economic crisis. His fortune shrank, forcing him to sell off a major Israeli company at a $100 million loss and to fire nearly all of his radio-station staff. Worse still, Gaydamak, supposedly the model for the title role in the movie The Lord of War (starring Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer in Africa), is one of 42 high-profile defendants on trial in France...
That’s when Pauley began street performing full time. Just performing doesn’t make much money, but with CDs to sell, she was able to make $250 in a day—enough to pay her rent and hit the road...