Forester MichaelIf compact discs were outlawed tomorrow, the 1,000 Madeleine Peyroux fans who crowded the Folly Theater Friday night to hear the singer would be out in front at the protest -- as long as NPR broke the news. Peyroux, a 34-year-old natural with one foot in Brooklyn and the other in Paris, attracts a decidedly old-school crowd, one that buys CDs (Peyroux's new Bare Bones is No. 23 on Amazon.com's music sales chart today) and pays attention to radio (public radio, anyway -- Friday's
AMC Theaters certainly got their money's worth out of this gimmick. The theater chain celebrated the opening of the new, downtown location, AMC Mainstreet, by giving away 52 free movie passes to the first 100 people to show up at the theater's doors before 8 a.m. today, costumed as their favorite actor or movie character. More than a hundred people showed, plus Shawn Edwards and Fox News ... and the cops. Police showed up to cart away one drunk individual whose antics had kept other, sleeping-b