Word: sumnerism
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...Bernard Sumner could easily be mistaken for a software programmer or bookshop owner. In an untucked polo shirt and faded jeans, he looks relaxed - comfortable, even. This is hardly the demeanor devotees expect of a man celebrated not only as a hugely influential force in post-punk music, but also as the co-creator of some of the most deliciously gloomy tracks ever to chart. Yet, after 25 years as guitarist and front man for the band New Order, Sumner is entitled to kick back. Emerging in 1980 from Manchester's new-wave legends Joy Division, New Order pillaged...
...point. But Waiting for the Sirens' Call, their latest album, out in Europe this week, is heavily indebted to, well, New Order. They have evolved their trademark mix of bass, synthesizer and pop hooks by embracing and perfecting their own legacy. The result is as relaxed and upbeat as Sumner's current incarnation. "I'm just a happier person, and that contentment shows in the music," he explains, sipping tea in a Paris studio dressing room before taping a performance for French TV channel Canal Plus last week. But despite the unapologetic joy that propelled the album's first single...
...Entertainment Tracking System--it sounds like something the Pentagon would have if we had fought a war to depose Viacom's Sumner Redstone instead of Saddam Hussein. And in a way, the ETS is the nerve center of a war: the War on Indecency. It is a war that had a shot seen round the world--Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl--but had been simmering much longer. It is a war with strange allies and enemies: it pits free-market conservatives against family-values conservatives, free-speech liberals against Big Government liberals, and a normally pro-business Congress...
...Freston, the new co-president of media giant Viacom, had been chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, whose MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central channels make it the lifeline to the youth market. One of Freston's missions from Viacom boss Sumner Redstone is to freshen the image and, more important, goose the profits of Paramount Pictures, the most geriatric of the Hollywood studios. So when the company's new Mr. Big showed up at the iconic indie-film festival, media types saw it as a signal of revolutionary change...
...reins at all of parent company Viacom's vast, fast-growing cable operations, including MTV, MTV2, VH-1, CMT, Nickelodeon, TV Land and Comedy Central, you might think she would need to get more in tune with her outer adult. But being responsible for the crown jewel of Sumner Redstone's empire--generating nearly $3 billion in profits this year alone and reaching 400 million viewers in 164 countries--has done little to dull McGrath's rebellious spirit or passion for "driving creativity," as she puts it. Even with a husband and 10-year-old daughter at home...