By STEVE FRIESS : LAS VEGAS — Wendy Schultz knew that her parents collected casino memorabilia, but not until they died within a few months of one another in 2005 did she understand the magnitude of their efforts.
“We kept finding ashtrays and playing cards and chips,” said Mrs. Schultz of Henderson, Nev., “and we’d come […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by admin
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News Analysis : By EDWARD WYATT
LOS ANGELES — Even after seven seasons, with ratings down about 10 percent from last year and some of the teenage fans who helped build the franchise in its early years shunning the show for its un-hip ubiquity, “American Idol” demonstrated on Wednesday that it still has the capacity to […]
Posted on May 24th, 2008 by admin
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN : Whether you embrace or scorn “American Idol,” the most efficient star-making phenomenon in entertainment history, can depend on the day. David Cook’s lopsided victory over David Archuleta on Wednesday night was an unexpected triumph of poise and maturity (Mr. Cook is 25) over ingenuousness and promise (Mr. Archuleta is 17). It […]
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin
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By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — Bad buzz. Creative infighting. Superhero gridlock at the multiplex. For Marvel Studios, handling gamma rays is starting to look like a cakewalk compared to turning “The Incredible Hulk” into a movie franchise.
The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an […]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by admin
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By AL BAKER and ANNE BARNARD
A personal assistant was charged yesterday with using a piece of exercise equipment to fatally bludgeon her boss, Linda Stein, the former punk-rock manager turned real estate broker, in her Fifth Avenue penthouse, the authorities said.
The assistant, Natavia S. Lowery, 26, of Brooklyn, said she was driven to violence by […]
Posted on November 10th, 2007 by admin
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By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 — During the last Hollywood writers strike, in 1988, David Letterman gave a blunt assessment of the quality of his show.
“We have nothing to do, the writers aren’t here,” he intoned at the opening of one show. “So a guy’s gonna come in and shave me. Fifty-five minutes, ladies […]
Posted on October 20th, 2007 by admin
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