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...women’s center. Breezing past the cushy couches, the big screen television, and the office space complete with a speedy wireless network, she strides into the state-of-the-art kitchen, equipped with ovens to serve any baking need. But rather than whip up a batch of gooey homemade chocolate-chip cookies, she brazenly hurls her brassiere into the oven. The kitchen smells not of delightful baked goods, but of burning nylon...
...from her. She’s past 40, and she’s past cute-but-hackneyed material like this as well. It’s why they ended “Sex and the City” before the girls got pre-menopausal. The flick also creates a batch of likeable secondary characters—including Tripp’s BFFs (Bradley Cooper, “Wedding Crashers” and Justin Bartha, “National Treasure”) and Paula’s slightly unhinged roommate (indie darling Zooey Deschanel of “The Good Girl?...
...first full season last year (he fought his way into the lineup after shoulder surgery in 2004). Just recently, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to research religion in Northern India for a year. He has planned trips to Dharamsala and Benares. The batch of letters that he recently received from the Yankees, the Reds, and the Phillies poses an intriguing, if trying, dilemma.Not bad for a one-time Ivy League tryout.“You know, he’s just one of those guys,” Walsh says. “He?...
...billion marriage of cosmetics company Kao with Kanebo Cosmetics, the M&A mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon in Japan...
...films in the marketplace it drew even more attention to the festival, and films that came through our festivals as straight independent films got purchased and went into the mainstream and performed very well. Furthermore, whatever films go in that direction there?s always going to be a new batch of films that are completely independent. It?s only when they get into the marketplace that somebody says ?well it?s Sundance, it?s easy.? It really...