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Even foreign carmakers operating in the U.S. could qualify for the loans, noted Bozzella. "There are no restrictions in the language on which companies are in and which companies are out," he says. However, none of the foreign automakers with manufacturing plants (such as Nissan) in the U.S. have expressed a direct interest...
...Oscar renown, the word blockbuster would not. As action films, guy-to-guy comedies and digitally animated features increasingly pull in the giant grosses, the high-to-middle-brow drama - TIFF's specialty - has become if not an endangered species, then certainly a niche item in Hollywood. None of the aforementioned pictures earned as much as $100 million at the North American box office. A megahit like The Dark Knight can grab that in a weekend. Only Brokeback Mountain took in more than $80 million...
...some mainstream success - you might remember the Top 40 hits Mornin' and Moonlighting (the theme from the 1980s TV series of the same name, starring Cybil Shepherd and Bruce Willis). He also performed on the 1985 USA for Africa charity recording We Are the World. But none of Jarreau's 20 albums or 23 singles have cracked the U.S. Top 10. "When people hear 'jazz singer,' they tend to approach with a little nervousness," he says, "because some jazz has put a bit of distance between the performer and audience...
...Sotheby's sale did not really come as a surprise. The last few years have seen a phenomenal increase in auction prices for contemporary art. Many of the buyers come from Russia, Asia and the Middle East, where a new class of billionaire collectors has emerged. It was none other than the royal family of Qatar that briefly made Hirst the most expensive living artist at auction last year by paying $19.2 million for Lullaby Spring, one of his medicine-cabinet pieces...
...None of this absolves the rest of us from our own behavior. Think of all those fools standing in front of office buildings and restaurants grabbing a cigarette. Think of our national epidemic of obesity, which researchers believe has many links to cancer...