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That really should not be surprising. Most types of animals--monkeys, whales, cats, apes--come in multiple varieties. As recently as 30,000 or 40,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens was sufficiently evolved to make jewelry and paint hauntingly evocative drawings on cave walls, we shared the planet with...
The other, weirder film is "Makers of Melody," an early-talkie (1929) short that purports to depict R&Hart's laborious, five-year rise from uptown anonymity to midtown stardom. (An little irony: after shooting the film, R&Hart went to Hollywood, where, with the exception of the buoyant "Love...
Had French business titan Jean-Marie Messier been a footballer, he might not be suffering disgrace and joblessness today. Last month, after France's World Cup humiliation, President Jacques Chirac advised disgruntled fans against turning on their beloved Bleus - warning "we mustn't burn today what we considered beautiful yesterday...
It didn't help Messier's case when he moved his primary residence to New York and started giving interviews saying that the beloved "cultural exception," subsidies granted by the French government to domestic filmmakers and other artists, was an outdated idea. In April things reached a point of no...
HEDGE FUNDS. These investment vehicles are lightly regulated but can accept only 99 "accredited" investors who have at least $1 million in net worth, excluding home equity. A typical hedge fund charges an annual fee of 1% of assets invested, plus 20% of profits. More hedge funds are opening to...