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1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Stuart N. Brotman

   What Twin Peaks and Coyote vs. Acme teach us about the value of what companies abandon | Fortune (opens the original)

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   In the 1991 finale of Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer famously tells Agent Cooper, “I’ll see you again in 25 years.” ABC had already canceled the show. Twenty-six years later, Showtime took that line literally and revived it, with creators David Lynch and Mark Frost still attached. That single decision captures a lesson businesses across disparate industries keep relearning the hard way: a finished, abandoned piece of work is rarely worthless. Dormant assets have a habit of reappearing on someone else’

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2. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Stuart N. Brotman

   The show that just beat Hamilton at the box office was built by giving away control | Fortune (opens the original)

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   Here is the paradox at the center of Broadway economics: the production that just broke the box-office record for a filmed stage musical was not built by anyone with the authority to greenlight it. It was built over 19 years by a Vermont folk singer who kept handing control to other people. On the last weekend of July, the live capture of Hadestown opened on fewer than 2,000 screens. It took in $10.2 million, the largest opening ever recorded for a filmed Broadway musical, ahead of Hamilton. The

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