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The United States of Marketing

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 by Mark

On Wednesday, the US Capitol will be the the venue for the first time in history for a Broadway show. A Super Bowl. And an Oscar extravaganza all rolled into one Busby Berkeley dazzler.

Penelope Cruz

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by Mark

Everything beautiful is inconsistent.

The first time I set my eyes on the lady from Madrid, she was, I believed, just the latest of a long line of celluloid sirens who waltz through our lives, light up the silver screen, fade from the headlines and surface again as aged queens of joint relief infomercials.

I was light years off base.

An Open Letter From Elvis

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 by Mark

I am up here in Rock Heaven watching all of the ceremonies about Michael Jackson. God bless Michael but I keep hearing that we were virtually one and the same.
Michael and Elvis. Michael and Elvis. Sorry folks, but I’m damn sick of this.
Let’s start by remembering that I was an original. When the Lord makes [...]

Lifematics

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 by Mark

There is a strange, perplexing and mysterious math to life.
Think of it as lifematics.
We can begin with the fact that virtually all human life has a span of one to one hundred years. Some live for seconds, others a century. But we are all enclosed within a mathematical box that begins and ends within a [...]

Marilyn Monroe

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Mark

A billion women came before Marilyn Monroe. A billion have come after.

But she has never shared the stage, the life stage, with anyone. She is a timeless beauty, an exotic wonder woman, a sexual shockwave, an object of universal lust. And an extraordinary business lesson.

No woman ever stood in a room with Marilyn and felt [...]

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