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Live music: Pricing the piper

January 20th, 2011 | No Comments

An economics lesson for the concert business

ARE you longing to see Take That, a British boy band approaching middle age? More than 1.3m people are. So heavy is demand for the tour, which begins in Sunderland in May, that Britain’s phone network at one point creaked under three to four times the normal weight of calls. But even sold-out concerts are never really so. Plenty of Take That tickets are for sale online—at up to five times the original prices.

For the hottest acts, the concert business is good. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber have little problem selling tickets. Yet trouble lurks below the stratosphere. Pollstar, a research firm, estimates that the 50 biggest worldwide tours grossed $2.93 billion last year—12% less than in 2009. StubHub, a large website on which tickets are traded, says the average concert-ticket price dropped by 18% between 2008 and 2010. …

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Billie Piper bans hubby from watching ‘raunchy’ Secret Diary

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Actress Billie Piper has barred her husband from watching the new series of ‘Secret Diary’ as it’’s too racy.
The 27-year-old actress, who plays high-class hooker Belle du Jour in the ITV show, believes that the sex scenes are so X-rated she’s too embarrassed to let her hubby Laurence Fox, 31, see them.
“I don’t want [...]

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Billie Piper hates watching herself nude onscreen

January 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Actress Billie Piper has admitted she feels uncomfortable watching herself nude on screen.
The beauty has done sex scenes in ‘The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl’ with her actor husband Laurence Fox.
“I wouldn’t watch it with my dad or brother, either. I have selective memory loss when it’s on!” the Mirror quoted her as telling [...]

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Billie Piper says locals actually believe she is a call girl

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Singer-actress Billie Piper says that sometimes people actually believe she is a prostitute after watching her play Belle de Jour in the popular TV series Secret Diary of A Call Girl.
The 27-year-old beauty revealed that some locals in West Sussex, where she lives with hubby Laurence Fox, look at her suspiciously.
“When Laurence and I go [...]

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Sarah Palin Gives “Oprah” Best Ratings In Two Years

November 19th, 2009 | No Comments

You bet’cha! Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Sarah Palin sent ratings through the roof.
Monday’s Oprah, which featured an interview with the former Alaska governor and GOP VP candidate, snagged a 7.2 rating. In fact, the chat yielded O her best ratings in two years.

The Live Feed’s James Hibberd notes that the Nov. 16 episode drew [...]

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Apple Tablet Could Shake Up Netbook Market, Analysts Say

August 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Apple could roll out a tablet PC in early 2010, according to a new research note by Piper Jaffray. The Apple tablet PC would be cheaper than a MacBook but still more expensive than the mininotebooks or netbooks that are currently dominating sales on the lower end of the PC market. Despite that higher price point, Piper Jaffray sees an Apple tablet PC as a challenging competitor in the netbook market, as well for mobile devices from companies such as Amazon.com.
– As rumors of an Apple
tablet PC reach a fever pitch, a new research note by Piper Jaffray suggests
that any such device would be a significant revenue generator and drastically
affect the market for mininotebooks, also known as netbooks.
The Aug. 7 report, written by analyst Gene Munster along w…



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David Tennant blames Billie Piper’s twin assets for ‘Top Gear’ loss

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

‘Doctor Who’ star David Tennant blames co-star Billie Piper’’s boobs for loosing their celeb car battle on the BBC’’s ‘Top Gear’.
“The reason I was 0.2 seconds behind her was because Billie was wearing a see-through top,” the News of the World quoted him as saying in ‘Doctor Who’ convention.
“If Billie Piper didn”t have such [...]

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