http://natebarlow.com/wordpress Musings on the Film & Entertainment Industry and my career in it. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://natebarlow.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/quote-of-the-year/ http://natebarlow.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/quote-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:01:13 +0000 Nate Barlow http://www.natebarlow.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/quote-of-the-year/ [...]]]> The Hollywood Reporter ran an article last Friday describing the rapidly growing and thriving entertainment scene in Dubai.  The closing paragraph delivered what has to be the quote of the year so far, from Abdullatif al-Sayegh, CEO of Arab Media Group: ”[it's] good that Dubai is on the radar screen of the world’s major reporters… [it's] not so good that we are paying twice or three times as much for concerts as do promoters in the U.S. and Europe.” Hmmm, kind of what everyone in the U.S. feels about the price of gas? Sorry, al-Sayegh, no sympathy here.

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