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July 25

Music Business: Looking for a specific term of "sales strategy"

It happened to Mr. Jackson and now after the death of Ms. Winehouse: Is there a specific expression for the massive sales (strategy) immediately after the death of an artist? (see websites of music sales companies). The same can be observed with famous authors: Bookstores pile up their books for sale. "Awareness Strategy" seems to be not specific enough. Buying at that point in time seems irrational, because (a) the available art pieces do not get better by the fact that the artist has died; (b) the art pieces will not give any supplemental information concerning the death of the artist and (c) they still will be available long afterwards. Grey Geezer 09:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey Geezer (talk • contribs)

I don't know about the rest, but it seems to me that any event in the life of an author (or creative person in any medium) increases their profile and public awareness of them and their work, attracting curiosity and possible sales. Death is merely one of the notable events that can occur. As someone (I forget who) said when Elvis died, "good career move". Britmax (talk) 12:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

So no kind of "Back to School"-Sales term in this case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey Geezer (talk • contribs) 13:17, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

In Jackson's case, I have seen it referred to as a posthumous sales surge or bump.--Kateshortforbob _talk 09:25, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

sherlock holmes

a long time back i ve watched ur programme " the adventure of sherlock holmes and nw i want it's dvds in hindi ans same for " the return of sherlock holmes" could u able to provide it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manindertyagi (talk • contribs) 14:29, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I am afraid you are mistaken. Wikipedia does not produce TV shows. --Jayron32 15:57, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

However, there may be some relevant information at this article. The entire series has been released on DVD, but there's no information about foreign dubs, etc. LANTZY^TALK 16:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Arnie and the Apple

Hey,

This might be a bit of a bizarre request, but I'd like to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger say the word "apple". Does anyone know if there's a film in which he says this word?

Jeremy Wordsworth (talk) 14:54, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Can't guarantee it, but possibly he's given an apple in Kindergarten Cop? More likely than Predator anyway... Worm^TT · (talk) 15:03, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Movie? Or video? He met Steve Jobs a couple of times (video at the bottom). I'd search in that direction... Grey Geezer 15:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey Geezer (talk • contribs)

Many film scripts and transcripts are available on the Internet, and easily searched for 'apple'. Let's see what we can manage.

1. End of Days - No.
2. Jingle All The Way - No.
3. Collateral Damage - No.
4. Kindergarten Cop - No.
5. Junior - Someone says apple, but the transcript I found doesn't identify the lines. I don't think it's Arnold.
6. True Lies - No.
7. Last Action Hero - No.
8. Terminator 2 - No.
9. Total Recall - No.
10. Twins - No.
11. Commando - No.
12. The Running Man - No.

Unless that is him in Junior, it doesn't look promising. Of course, Arnold has been in more films than this, but I couldn't find scripts for all of them, and I skipped those in which he has minor roles or I am absolutely sure he doesn't say apple (like Terminator, in which he has maybe a dozen lines total.)

Finding a statement about the company from his time as governor is probably your best bet. gnfnrf (talk) 00:46, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Mid 1990's alternative rock video

Hello, I haven't been around the desks for quite some time, but I'm stopping in to ask a music question that has bothered me for years. Sometime in the mid 1990's, I was watching the MTV show 120 Minutes late one night. I remember seeing a video by an alternative rock band which showed two boys on a beach. They are handling an apparent live explosive hand grenade, and at some point the older boy coaxes the younger one to pull the pin as he runs away...or something like that. The plot as I remember was that the older boy runs away and basically causes the younger one to unwittingly kill himself. I remember finding it quite disturbing at the time, but now I either don't remember or just never saw the band name. I'm pretty certain it is/was not a very successful band, they proabbly just had enough industry buzz to get a video or two aired on television. The song was typical guitar alt rock of the day. Does this sound familiar to anyone? thanks, 10draftsdeep (talk) 17:30, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

That doesn't sound familiar to me, and I was a pretty dedicated watcher from about '96 on. This might help you find something familiar: http://tylerc.com/the-120-minutes-archive/ Foofish (talk) 00:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I'll look into it.The more I think about it, I probably saw this around 1994. 10draftsdeep (talk) 13:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

It's a bit later but Manic Street Preachers did a song called "So why so sad" which features images of people playing on a beach with soldiers running around and ends with a young boy about to hit a grenade with a baseball bat - available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3i1E9N8zww&ob=av2e 90.215.145.67 (talk) 20:45, 30 July 2011 (UTC)