The freak story gets freakier. Reuters reports on Hollywood’s pandering to Tom Cruise:
… Read the restLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a rare public show of support for a beleaguered star, some of Hollywood’s top executives rallied to Tom Cruise’s side on Wednesday as a new poll suggested his odd behavior in recent months may have cost him millions of dollars at the box office.
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The litigious and arrogant New York advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, which sued the Maine blogger for exercising free speech, has done far more than drop its case: it has folded, says MediaPost.
UPDATE/CLARIFICATION:
I should’ve read more carefully beyond the sensational MediaPost headline, "Puzzling Lawsuit Brings Down Agency," which I linked to above.… Read the rest
AdAge today has a story on Internet memes, which Wikipedia (as of May 8, 2006 at 12:41am) defines as:
… Read the restAn Internet phenomenon (sometimes called an Internet meme) occurs when something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, often quite suddenly, through the mass propagation of media content made feasible by the Internet; however, the popularity of the phenomenon usually wanes as rapidly as it was acquired: the Internet’s lack of physical boundaries leads to a much faster and wider spread of information and ideas, especially when the subject is based around humor or curiosity.
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