Starbucks selling out? Don't you have to have credibility to lose it?
8 years after my silver-medal winning Academic Decathlon speech about making mix-tapes (key line: "On a Salvatore mix, Bach and Beck don't just sit next to each other alphabetically..."), Newsweek has gotten in the game, albeit after the year in which cassettes ceased being mass-manufactured.
This story is intriguing - a Hasidic Jew was hired to play, shockingly, a Hasidic Jew in a new Natalie Portman film and after receiving all sorts of threats from his community, quit the project. I understand that because Hasidic Jews do not watch films or television that they may shun a member of the community from being in a film - but who better to represent this oft-misunderstood group than a member of the group itself?
And finally, Eliot Spitzer's call-girl has reportedly made $200,000 in under a week from online sales of her music, despite the song being on Z100's playlist for only 24 hours or so. Who do i need to sleep with to make a few hundred grand off of "Gypsy Waltz?"
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