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...Because you will just continue to go." And the video clip that Portman, experienced at self-promoting from years in an indie band, put on YouTube to publicize his book helped Ferrell's company see it as a film. But not a film for teens, says Ferrell's writing partner Adam McKay. "I wouldn't want my 14-year-old reading King Dork," he says. "It's pretty severe...
...also serious about finding a North American partner for his two-headed animal, despite a very public and unsuccessful mating dance with General Motors this summer and fall. Kirk Kerkorian, a large GM shareholder, wanted the flailing auto giant to join the Nissan-Renault family, hoping Le Cost Killer could wield le knife at GM and help boost the stock. Having witnessed the leaps that two former mediocrities like Nissan and Renault could make by partnering, Ghosn found the idea of pooling forces with GM appealing. And he figured GM could help his carmakers save billions of dollars on everything...
...other words, now that Big Money is onboard, hedge funds are playing it safer. "Historically, the people who were giants of the industry were unusual, dynamic and hard to classify," says Yasho Lahiri, a partner at law firm Baker Botts in New York City, who represents hedge funds and investors. "Today people want repeatable process...
...significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro--they brought in Charles Renfro as full partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu...
...Inspired by his fellow batsmen, Justin Langer transformed from a grafter into an opener who scored as freely as his bludgeoning partner Matthew Hayden. When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight...