Actor Kevin Pollak Reinvents Himself With Web Video

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:29 p.m.
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In his 30-year career, Kevin Pollak has appeared in more than 60 films and created indelible roles in such modern classics as A Few Good Men and The Usual Suspects. His Internet awakening occurred in 2009, when he started his Streamy Award winning weekly talk show Kevin Pollak Chat Show backed by Jason Calacanis (Mahalo). He ventured into the world of Web video with his acclaimed original Web series Vamped Out (it was his directorial debut and he wrote and starred in it as well). Vamped Out

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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Brings Fashion to New York's Lincoln Center

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:05 a.m.
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Photograph by Peter Hapak ... Director of Fashion, Lincoln Center ... Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... Big Idea: Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled." "We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution," she says, "whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers." Wolkoff is starting with

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"OnIt" Online Men's Lifestyle Mag to Help You Get Microsoft Abs

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 1:51 p.m.
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Watch your ripped back, David Zinczenko. The campaign for Bill Gates as Editbro in Chief starts here ... Last week, Microsoft filed a trademark application for the name "ONIT," a men's lifestyle website. Its full description reads thus. "An Internet website portal featuring information of general interest to men." So that'll be ladies, sports, beer, technology, and ladies, then. Or, it says on the filing tin, "information in the field of entertainment, sports, fitness, recreation and leisure

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Former NASA Investigator Offers Two More Ways for BP to Stop the Oil Spill

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Published June 3, 2010 at 6:53 p.m.
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Fast Company has received hundreds of ideas about how to fix the gulf oil spill, but this one is getting a bit more attention because it's author earned masters and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in mechanical engineering and worked in the MIT Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. He started his career at Rockwell International, designing auxiliary power units for the hydraulic systems on the space shuttle. He has been Principal Investigator on several NASA Small Business Innovative Research grants. Below, his

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Infographic of the Day: K Street, the Favored Employer of Ex-Congress Members

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Published June 4, 2010 at 1:13 p.m.
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Guess which state has the most? ... An interactive map from Talking Points Memoshows how K Street, that D.C. sinkhole of faceless movers and lobbyists,is in fact full of familiar faces: your ex-Congress members ... Themap details the distribution of Congress members-turned-lobbyistsacross the United States. Scroll over the states to find out how manyhigh-profile career changers are out there (172) and where they comefrom (Texas takes first place with 17; New York's a close second with14). Then,

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Ellie Kemper on The Tonight Show

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:42 a.m.

What would The Office be if our quirky receptionist had gone with her initial career choice? ... Last night Ellie tells Jay Leno her alternate choice ... I’m glad she decided to go into show business instead. I can’t imagine a better replacement for Pam. Turns out she’s just as quirky in real [ ... ] ...

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How Technology Thwarts the Real-Life Nurse Jackie

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Published May 10, 2010 at 4:46 p.m.
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Randy Lipps, CEO of Omnicell, knew his medical surveillance technology was working when a certain hospital group (kept anonymous because of medical privacy concerns) reported a sharp spike in actions taken against staff for swiping drugs ... Nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs according to the DEA, more than the number abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and inhalants, combined -- an 80% increase over 2000. Some of that is average folks and their kids taking

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LinkedIn For Managers - Part 1

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Published April 4, 2010 at 9:51 p.m.

This cast reviews our recent Career Tools guidance on LinkedIn, as well as highlights LinkedIn's recent Fortune magazine cover story, and recommends some basic LinkedIn behaviors for managers ...

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Ed Helms on The Tonight Show

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Published March 26, 2010 at 1:46 a.m.

Ed was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. In the following clip he discusses his early career in stand up and describes how he once got paid in Krispy Kream doughnuts. Yummy.Ed and Jay play, “Name that Voice Over.” ...

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