| The Once Juggernaut: Rising Quickly
Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring. "They're a great story," says Steve Feldstein, a spokesman for Fox Home Entertainment, which released Once on DVD in December and expects to see a spike in sales at retailers mimicking the movie's ascent on Amazon. "There's nothing quite like the Oscars as a promotional vehicle. Their performance was wonderful. Their speeches were honest and fresh." Fox Searchlight launched the film in limited theatrical release in May with a 16-city bus tour. Screening the movie for local press and closing with live Swell Season performances, the tour built on the goodwill the film had established with critics at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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This anger over an inability to display some flashy windows is really blowing my mind right now. I'm sure that we'll all take advantage of this to bone microsoft again, but there are other things they've done that we should focus on.And wth is up with the VP buying a 2100 dollar machine that can't run Vista?!? How can anyone say that's MS's fault lol. The kid's an idiot. .
South Carolina Democratic Primary Coverage - Saturday, January 26, 6 ...
NBC's Kevin Corke, meantime, is at Jillian's Restaurant, Columbia, South Carolina, the Edwards campaign in the senator's home birth state, is there. And that is where Kevin will be joining us throughout the evening. Kevin, good evening to you. KEVIN CORKE, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Keith, good evening to you. I think it is interesting to just take a look around Jillian's. I think there is a bit of excitement here because they just don't know. They don't know. Did he connect with the voters like he had hoped to? Would the fact that he is a native son really pay off today? But I also think there is an unease here, because the fact of the matter is, if not here, where? If not now, when? In the case of John Edwards, he has got to show some momentum. And this is a place where certainly he would have some advantages to do that, because some of our pre-election polling seemed to suggest that Edwards is a guy who seems to be taking advantage of or at least benefiting from the ongoing Obama-Clinton spat.
Democrats laugh the loudest
First, it throws the Republican race into disarray. People (including me) were already writing post-New Hampshire and pre-Michigan that the nod appeared to be John McCain's for the taking. McCain had momentum after his New Hampshire win, and he had won Michigan against George W Bush in 2000, so it wasn't entirely unreasonable to think that he might be on his way to glory. But that was stopped cold by Michigan voters. Now, not only is there no Republican frontrunner; there's not even anything resembling a likely victory scenario for any of the top-tier candidates. Second, the result seemed to confirm that Republican voters are deeply unenthusiastic about the choices before them. The Republicans, far more than the Democrats, usually have by this point in the process an “establishment" candidate around whom the party faithful have rallied.
Boyd Gaming cautious on '08 outlook Company sees profits dip in fourth ...
Wall Street analysts on Wednesday tried to push Boyd Gaming Corp. executives into making bold predictions on the prospects for the gaming industry in 2008. Keith Smith, in his first quarterly earnings conference call with analysts and investors as company CEO, wasn't biting. Smith, who added the CEO duties to his role as Boyd Gaming president on Jan. 1, said a softness in business the company experienced in November and December had carried into January. The company's casinos in February, however, have seen a slight boost in customers and spending activity. Still, he told analysts that two or three months of results don't constitute a trend. .
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