Jennifer Lynn López (aka J. Lo, born July 24, 1970) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, designer, dancer, and fashion icon. She was born and raised in the Castle Hill section of Bronx, New York City, New York. Lopez speaks English and Spanish and has two sisters, Leslie (a music teacher) and Lynda, a well known television news anchor.
Yahoo has put together a list of the Top Stars of 2008, according to actual pageviews to the movie pages for these stars. They break the list down into top actors and top actresses.
Top 10 Actresses of 2008
Angelina Jolie
Jessica Alba
Lindsay Lohan
Mary-Kate Olsen
Hilary Duff
Aishwarya Rai
Jennifer Lopez
Paris Hilton
Nicole Kidman
Gong Li
They say of Hilary that her defining [...] Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:52:05 GMT - Source: Hilarynews.Com - Read the article
Autos
AAin't Too Proud to Beg for Customers
Late to the airport? No problem, as long as you're one of the few elite American Airlines customers. Starting September 30th, American will let its best customers leap through select airports like a pre-trial O.J. Simpson in a Hertz commercial. Passengers participating in PriorityAAccess will be whisked through designated security lanes, given top priority at boarding time and be the first passengers told their luggage landed 700 miles away.
American defines "elite" as
suckerscustomers who bought full-fare coach tickets, those who spent extra to sit in business- and first-class ticket holders and participants in any one of the airline's other stuttering programs such as AAdvantage and AAirpass. Unlike a
similar program by Delta, American's priority security lines won't require an annual fee, as long as you're one of their privileged few frequent fliers.
Emphasis on few: American ranked
fifth among eightlegacy carriers in a recent J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction survey.
"
American
Airlines greatly appreciates the loyalty of our customers, and we have
been working hard to deliver the product features and recognition we
know they value and deserve," Mark Mitchell, managing
director of customer experience told the
Dallas
Morning News
. Translation: we need to increase customer loyalty, but don't have the cash to give
actualperks. It's the famous
Jennifer Lopez "love don't cost a thing" business model so popular with cash-strapped airlines these days.
Though a Delta ticketholder estimated he could arrive at LAX 25 minutes
before departure and still make the plane using Delta's pay-per-perk
system, we suspect customers who are increasingly price conscious
will most likely forgo the full-fare coach tickets. Plus, the discount
carriers have been offering $15 and $20 priority boarding programs for
years. In effect, American is admitting that they're at the mercy of
the customers who pay the highest fares. Like
celebrity swagat the Emmys, a giveaway once again goes to those who could afford to buy it.
Back when this writer was working a high school summer job for someone who couldn't afford to give pay raises, we called this technique the "verbal raise": tell someone how important they are and hope they'll stick around with demanding real benefits. It didn't work then, it doesn't work now with the
Confederate currencyknown as frequent flier miles and we don't suspect it'll work with priority boarding.
Photo courtesy Flickr user
straightedge.
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:54:10 GMT - Source: Blog.Wired.Com - Read the article
