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McCartney, Bowie, Phish drop rare vinyl for Record Store Day
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
A copy of David Bowie's "Starman" record is seen in Scarborough, Maine, on Thursday. The
seven-inch vinyl record is being released for Record Store Day on Saturday.
By Tony Sclafani, msnbc.com contributor
Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Phish, Lana Del Rey and Foster the People are just a small
sample of artists preparing to drop rare vinyl come Record Store Day on Saturday. The annual
event was conceived five years ago by a group of record store employees and pop music fans to
put a spotlight on the 700 or so independent record store dealers in the U.S. It?s since grown into
a major cultural happening, with hundreds of recording artists releasing collectible CDs and very
limited edition vinyl (the latter of which has seen a major sales resurgence recently).
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?It?s definitely put a spotlight on the music industry as a whole -- not just record stores but the
entire music industry,? said Gary Gebler, owner of the Baltimore-based Trax on Wax. ?It?s like
Christmas in April for record stores.
?The only trouble,? Gebler said, ?is that the items the acts put out are so rare that not all the fans
are able to buy them. Like with the new Phish album (a three-record set called ?Junta Deluxe?),
there?s only around 5,000 being pressed, but way more people will want copies.?
In other words, if you want to get your hands on the 45s of McCartney?s ?Another Day,? Bowie?s
?Starman,? or Del Rey?s ?Born to Die? (featuring a remix by Damon Albarn), be prepared to hit
your local record store bright and early Saturday. To up the excitement ante, individual stores
usually don?t know what items they?ll be getting until the day itself. Also, some stores will be
having in-store performances, like Seattle?s Easy Street Records, where country artist Dierks
Bentley will take the stage.
The Princeton Record Exchange, one of the country?s leading independent music retailers, is
expecting such a large crowd this year that it sent out a press release with some instructions for
customers: two items per person and no calling ahead to ask for records to be held. There?s a
good reason for that. It turns out that at last year?s Record Store Day, the Exchange had a couple
of hundred people waiting in line even before it opened.
LOS ANGELES ? Disney movie studio boss Rich Ross stepped down on Friday, taking the fall for
at least a couple of over-budgeted bombs as Hollywood shies away from taking risks on big
blockbusters.
His resignation Friday comes after two years in a row of nasty March surprises, ironically both
having to do with the Red Planet. Last year it was ?Mars Needs Moms,? a creepy animated movie
that lost $70 million. This year, it was ?John Carter,? a sci-fi action movie set on Mars that
resulted in a $200 million loss for Disney.
Ross, 50, said in a memo to staff that he no longer believed his role as chairman of Walt Disney
Studios was ?the right professional fit.?
Disney CEO Bob Iger, who said last summer that big-budget movies were getting ?increasingly
more risky,? thanked Ross for his years of service.
Disney shares closed up 27 cents at $42.35 on Friday.
Although some of Ross? troubles stemmed from films put into production by his predecessor,
Dick Cook, analysts said his inability to prevent big write-downs was what led to his exit.
?At some level he takes responsibility for not fixing them or shutting them down,? said Needham &
Co. equity analyst Laura Martin. ?They need to lower the risk of entry and build franchise films
from that base. Not go all in, hoping it works out.?
Part of the estimated $250 million budget on ?John Carter? can be attributed to the notion that the
movie could become a multi-part series, as it was based on a trove of books by the late Edgar
Rice Burroughs. The series began with ?A Princess of Mars? in 1917 and carried through to the
posthumously published ?John Carter of Mars? in 1964.
Ross had taken the job just two and a half years ago with a mission to cut costs and develop new
hits. He had brought ?High School Musical? and ?Hannah Montana? to TV audiences when he
headed Disney Channels Worldwide.
Cod-damn gorgeous! The girl who works in a chip shop who has 'Britain's most beautiful face'
By PAUL HARRIS
PUBLISHED: 16:23 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 05:23 EST, 21 April 2012
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Leonardo Da Vinci spent a lifetime trying to paint one. Scientists and mathematicians have puzzled
for centuries over what makes one, while cosmetic surgeons have amassed fortunes striving to
create one.
And Florence Colgate? Well, she simply has one.
The 18-year-old student is blessed with what is described as the perfect face. It matches an
international blueprint for the optimum ratio between eyes, mouth, forehead and chin, endowing her
with flawless proportions.
Symmetry: Florence Colgate, 18, is blessed with the optimum proportions for beauty
In theory, that needn't necessarily cause her to appear anything more than symmetrical (in which
department, incidentally, she is also faultless).
But the blue-eyed blonde's mathematical dimensions have just added up to success in a
competition to find Britain's most naturally beautiful face.
Florence, who has a Saturday job in a seaside chip shop in between studying for her A-levels, beat
8,000 entrants to win the title. Contestants were judged without make-up and were barred entry if
they had had plastic surgery or chemical enhancement.
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Locals wryly suggested it was the sea air in the Dover Grammar schoolgirl's home town of Deal,
Kent, which contributed to her success, or possibly a secret ingredient in Middle Street Fish Bar's
chips.
But it is the scientific definition of beauty ? not to mention a healthy portion of beauty genes from
her mother ? which gave Florence the crown.
A woman's face is said to be most attractive when the space between her pupils is just under half
the width of her face from ear to ear. Florence scores a 44 per cent ratio. Experts also believe the
relative distance between eyes and mouth should be just over a third of the measurement from
hairline to chin. Florence's ratio is 32.8 per cent.
Singer Shania Twain and actresses Liz Hurley and Jessica Alba are ranked among perfectly
formed celebrities. Samantha Brick, who caused an international debate after proclaiming women
hate her because she is beautiful, is not.
Face value: The student at her Saturday day job; chip off the old block: as a baby with mum Lisa
And to top it off, Florence's face is almost perfectly symmetrical, which is also scientifically linked
with beauty.
The proportional beauty theory has been around ever since Da Vinci applied visionary thinking and
mathematical genius to describing the perfect face more than half a millennium ago.
For Florence, it became reality w
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