PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday February 28, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday February 28, 2008

Stage and Screen Superstar and Country Icon Reba McEntire to Host For the Tenth Time the Forty-third Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music's Party of the Year

The Academy of Country Music has announced the return of Reba McEntire as host of the forty-third ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, an event which honors country music's top talent as well as the industry's hottest emerging talent, to be broadcast live from the M-G-M Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May eighteenth on C-B-S. Reba McEntire is a country music legend who has been delivering number one songs for more than twenty years and has sold more than fifty million records over the course of her incredible career.

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The Sweet (and Cool) Smell of Pop Art Revealed in Perfume Inspired by Andy Warhol

"My favorite smell is the first smell of spring in New York," Andy Warhol once said. Warhol began painting and silk-screening colored flowers during the nineteen-sixties, and returned to the subject in 1970, when he developed a portfolio of vibrantly colored flower screenprints at the first of his two studios on Union Square. Both the flowers and the location were the inspiration for Andy Warhol Union Square, the latest in a series of limited edition collectible Warhol perfume.

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Money Isn't Everything, Even in Office Betting Pools

With March Madness fever sweeping across workplaces in just a few weeks, companies are left wondering if this frenzy will spread across their cubicle culture and translate into lost dollars. Though money may be the concern of company owners, is it also workers' main motivation for participating in office pools? Not according to the latest Spherion Workplace Snapshot survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Of the forty-four percent of U-S workers who have participated in an office pool, forty-five percent named office camaraderie as the primary reason for doing so.

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ASIA's Original 'Supergroup' Line-Up Returns With First New Studio Album in Twenty-five Years: 'Phoenix' to be Released April Fifteenth by E-M-I America Records

The acclaimed British progressive rock group ASIA has announced the April fifteenth release of "Phoenix," its first studio album since 1983. Recorded last August by all four original members, "Phoenix" will be released on C-D and digitally by E-M-I America Records in North America and by Frontiers Records in the rest of the world. Since 1982, ASIA has sold more than fifteen million albums globally, and the band has announced a world tour to support the release of "Phoenix," with U-S dates confirmed for April and May.

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Profile: International Entertainment