PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, February 22, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, February 22, 2008

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Sheryl Crow to Headline New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

On April 25, nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow will headline the first night of this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as JazzFest, as part of a short run of dates -- a preview of her extensive upcoming summer tour. Last week Crow's sixth studio album, the highly personal Detours, debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart at number two, and has already been hailed as a classic.

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Global Survey Shows U.S. Employees Give Highest Marks to Their Managers

A new global survey shows U-S employees have among the most positive opinions and friendliest relationships with their managers, leading them to be the least likely to disobey their supervisors' direction than other international workers. U-S employees also have the highest perceptions of their managers as competent, talented and open to feedback, according to five thousand five hundred workers surveyed in ten countries by B-P-I.

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'No Country For Old Men' Commands 4 Major Categories in Netflix Academy Awards(R) Survey

In a politically-charged season that appears to be dividing the country by gender, geography and generations, Americans seem surprisingly united in their views of the other big race this year, Sunday's 80th annual Academy Awards. In a survey of some 25-thousand Netflix members conducted by the world's largest online movie rental service, men and women, red states and blue states, young and old spoke loudly and clearly in predicting who will walk away with Oscar's most coveted prizes as Hollywood prepares for its biggest night of the year. The suspense thriller "No Country For Old Men" was a hands down favorite with Netflix survey takers. Forty-two percent said that the film would win for Best Picture, giving it more than twice the number of votes of any of the other nominated films. A majority said that the unique filmmaking tandem of Joel and Ethan Coen would be honored in the Directing category and Netflix voters also said the Coen brothers would win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for their treatment of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Finally, nearly six in ten respondents said that Javier Bardem would win for Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of the murderous Anton Chigurh.

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