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Building a resume at Sundance
| Jan 28, 2005This weekend, the Sundance film festival wraps up in Park City, Utah. The festival is famous for its risk takers - those independent filmmakers who finance a movie on credit cards, then hope to find a distributor. But some filmmakers aren't even really trying to get their films onto the market. They direct short films. It's more like a resume reel than anything else. Marketplace's Jeff Tyler followed two rising directors over the course of the festival.
Award Shows
| Jan 28, 2005It's that time of year when we're inundated with awards shows on TV. And apparently, viewers aren't finding them all that entertaining. Ratings have been falling for many of these celebrity love fests. Host Tess Vigeland talks to Variety's Michael Speier to find out what's going on.
Advergaming
| Jan 27, 2005Commentator and Harvard psychologist Susan Linn says she thinks the decision by junk food companies not to market to kids is because they've found an ever better channel to children's stomachs -- video games.
Brave pollster
| Jan 27, 2005Iraqi insurgents are saying they will attack anyone who votes in Sunday's election. But some brave Iraqis are not only voting, they are working the polls on Election Day. Marketplace's Borzou Daragahi found one pollster as he prepared for Sunday.
NYSE to open early
| Jan 27, 2005Big Board chief John Thain made headlines at the World Economic Forum in Davos today when he said the New York Stock Exchange was thinking about opening two hours earlier. Marketplace's Amy Scott, on Wall Street, asks the actual traders what they think about getting up two hours earlier.
Lukoil rebranding
| Jan 27, 2005Pretty soon there will be no more Mobil or Getty Oil stations in the U.S. Russian parent company has decided to rebrand all its American stations under the corporate moniker -- Lukoil. Marketplace's Alisa Roth asks whether the effort will help or hurt the company's brand identity.
Spy hard
| Jan 27, 2005It's now a month into the New Year. So, how's your resolution working? Cash Peters finds some L.A. gym owners who have an idea that may keep you on the treadmill for more than just January.
Rock the wealthy vote in Iraq
| Jan 27, 2005Despite the current troubles of Iraqi citizens, many are richer than they were under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Will the upcoming elections do anything to further boost the country's business climate? Borzou Daragahi takes a look.
Sports drunks
| Jan 27, 2005With lawsuits brewing over beer served at pro sporting events, will sports franchises soon make their last call for alcohol? Host Cheryl Glaser talks to Marketplace's Business of Sports commentator David Carter about how the issue of overdrinking at games may come to a head.
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