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...someone believes in him: sexy British scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who has found the imprint of his lighter in a rock that's millions of years old. She takes him to the desert area where she found it, and after bumping into the obligatory rude dude, a souvenir salesman named Will (Danny McBride), they all go sliding down a waterfall into the time-jumbled land of the lost. (See the top 10 1950s sci-fi movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Lost: Delusions of Manhood | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...take a look at the (new regulations), the sales pickup opportunity is going to start in about 18 months so we're going to be perfectly timed to take advantage of it," said Jim Press, the former Toyota executive, who is now Chrysler's top salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Americans Learn to Love Fiat? Chrysler Hopes So | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...speaks volumes about the power of chance in finding love.The movie begins when the obnoxious Al Lolly (John Goodman) purchases a $14,000 Swedish mattress in the warehouse where shy 28-year-old Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano, “There Will Be Blood”) works as a salesman. Later in the day, his airy daughter “Happy” (Zooey Deschanel, “Yes Man”)—a girl with expensive fashion taste and no inhibitions—arrives at the store with no other intention than to nap for three hours...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gigantic | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...driver dad and supermarket-cashier mom. Boyle, 48, was one of nine children whose father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...year-old son was twelve. But he didn't stay out of the limelight for long: in the early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made him a natural salesman and he showed a knack for making anything - even foot fungus treatment - seem exciting: ("Boom! Tough-Actin' Tinactin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Madden | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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