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Fishing in Times Square.

By Ken Davenport On January 23, 2009 · 2 Comments

When I first moved to NYC, the only people selling stuff on the street were hookers and dealers.  And not the ones from Sweet Charity. 

It's quite a different story these days.  Take a look at some of the street teams we snapped pictures of over the last few weeks.  [...]

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    Top Five Biggest Broadway Grossers of ’08. Are we like the movies?

    By Ken Davenport On January 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

    As promised, here's the follow up to yesterday's post re: the top 10 grossing domestic films of 2008.

    Since the film industry produces so much more product than we do, I thought it best to compare the top 10 grossing films domestically with the top 5 grossing shows (interesting to note that there [...]

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      Want a monster in the movie biz? You need a monster.

      By Ken Davenport On January 21, 2009 · 2 Comments

      Variety just released their report on the the 250 top grossing films in the US in 2008.  Take a look at the top 10, and see if you notice some of the same trend that I did.

      1.  The Dark Knight
      2.  Iron Man

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        Overheard at Angus: Volume II

        By Ken Davenport On January 20, 2009 · 5 Comments


        There I am, enjoying my burger when I hear this from two folks discussing the biz at the bar:

        Broadway Guy #1:  What are you working on these days?

        Broadway Guy #2:  What am I working on?  What am I NOT working on!?! 

        Broadway Guy #1:  You've got a [...]

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          Plowing on after Piven.

          By Ken Davenport On January 19, 2009 · 2 Comments


          Yes, it's true. 

          We started the official process of pursuing action against Mr. Piven in regards to his "pulling chute" (my expression for an early departure) from Speed.

          You can read all about it here.

          And that is all that I'm allowed to say about that. 

          [...]

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