The shark-centric programming block, its 25th year, has evolved into a favorite beyond the realm of dog-day couch dwellers, luring major advertisers like hammerheads to a chum bucket.
A few days before the Super Bowl this past February, Benmont Tench, who has been playing keyboards with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for more than thirty years, took a break from rehearsing, in Tempe, Arizona, for the game's halftime performance to send a text message to a chum in Los Angeles.
The slow-as-molasses system served the insiders well enough: A New Jersey executor picked up $18,000 in fees and the Princeton lawyer handling the estate pocketed $17,000 for his troubles, which included selling DeJames' house, appraised at $190,000, to a chum for $156,000.
MICHAEL A. MARTI A Chum to the Underdog In Glendale, Queens, where Michael A. Marti lived, neighbors might not have known the bond trader from Cantor Fitzgerald.
Martin Bouygues, boss of Bouygues Group and known to be a chum of the previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, popped into the Elysée to nobble his successor last week just after Mr Hollande returned from Nigeria and just before he flew off to Central Africa, according to an uncontradicted report in the Journal de Dimanche, a weekly.
One way to increase your chances, but still use a hook and line, is to use a chum bait.
All three of his sons play big roles in the regime, and one, the head of the CPP's youth wing, is now running for a seat in Parliament.To redress the economic imbalance, the CNRP proposes a populist programme borrowed, in parts, from a former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra (who happens to be a chum of Mr Hun Sen).
These featured Denis Thatcher writing to a golfing chum - generally acknowledged to be Bill Deedes, the former Daily Telegraph editor and Conservative minister.
After a phone conversation between Mr. Kjellander and Mr. Rezko, the former gave $600,000 of the fee as part of a no-collateral loan to a Rezko chum he didn't know.
The Dear Bill letters in Private Eye magazine, apparently penned by him to a golfing chum, gave author John Wells an opportunity to show Sir Denis as a figure of fun, but never contempt.
The appointment of Francis Campbell, 35, is a blow to socialite Carla Powell, a chum of the PM's, who was in the running for the job.
