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Motorola's dire straits required a dramatic reinvention. So over the course of 2008, it slashed costs, replaced nearly 70% of its senior executives, transformed its corporate culture and hired Sanjay Jha, Brown's co-CEO, to resurrect its handset segment. Then it took the turnaround one step further, announcing plans in February to split the corporation into two independent entities...
Goldberger intends this final segment, with its ridiculously rapid succession of plot twists and accusations flying back and forth, as a parody of a film noir murder mystery, in which the plot unfolds, the guilty reveal themselves, and all the pieces fall into place in one climactic scene. He is fairly successful—the series of deceitful maneuvers and murders is entertaining, and so absurd that it’s funny. Here, Goldberger successfully creates the satirical thriller he was aiming...
...friend Blaze stands at odds with everything else that is occurring in the plot. Introduced as Ronnie’s first female friend, their quick bonding suggests that Blaze will be an ever-present source of camaraderie for the estranged newcomer. However, this character disappears for the entire middle segment of the film, only to reappear at the very end as someone who Ronnie has to rescue from her own emotional crisis. The lack of incorporation of Ronnie’s friend in the primary family drama makes the character of Blaze an awkward tool seemingly placed in the story...
Cheung also has another accomplishment under his belt: he has been on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In a segment that aired on Aug. 12, 2009, Cheung appeared alongside several other MIT and Harvard grad students to discuss an ethics oath for MBA students. Check it out here...
...Party Tycoon It is a brilliant weekday afternoon, and Breitbart is at the wheel of his Range Rover, driving to the Los Angeles bureau of Fox News to make a live appearance on Fox's politics and business show America's Nightly Scoreboard. He'll then tape a segment for the late-night talkfest Red Eye, whose host, Greg Gutfeld, is a contributor to Big Journalism. On Scoreboard, Breitbart takes another jab at Blumenthal. On Red Eye, he shoots for bigger game. "I want it to be in the history books," he proclaims, "that I took down the institutional left...