At the soft comic heart of "The Proposal" beats a cheeky update of "The Taming of the Shrew" -- you know, the arranged marriage, wives-submit-to-husbands rubric that Shakespeare played around with all those years ago.
"We soon discovered that our proposals were beating out some of the biggest fast food places in the country," says Shannon.
His proposal would indeed beat a third runway at Heathrow on two important grounds: it would have enough capacity to handle the growth in passenger numbers for many decades ahead, and, being in a relatively unpopulated area, would torment far fewer people with noise.
He's pitching a book proposal called "First Beat From E Street," is host of a radio show Sundays on 105.7 FM in Ocean County and has put together a band called Steel Mill Retro that plays the old songs in all the old familiar places like the Stone Pony in Asbury Park.
In a widely followed competition, a design by the Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake beat proposals by three other prominent firms for a new U.S. embassy in London.
As a result opponents of the Keystone pipeline must remain engaged and prepared to beat this proposal again when and if it resurfaces.
They also beat back proposals to cut Westchester's share of money for a program intended to reduce property taxes, which was enacted in 1996.
