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...chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports star Xander Cage (Diesel) shanghaied into a U.S. government spy unit to buy hot cars from Russian anarchist Yorgi (hyperemoting Marton Csokas). Yorgi is brilliant enough to create a nerve-gas missile system but not quite smart enough to lock the door to his hideout. So Xander struts in for a climactic face-off. "I love anything I can get into...
Middelhoff's replacement is Gunter Thielen, a 17-year Bertelsmann veteran who heads its successful Arvato division, a printing and business-to-business e-commerce unit. But he previously ran the family holding company, which placed him philosophically close to the Mohns. After taking over last week, Thielen made it clear he was going to slow down the pace of expansion. "It's not the time for great leaps," he told the news agency DPA. "We will deal less and shape more." That could mean some selloffs, possibly of the underperforming U.S. media properties. One deal Thielen will have...
...dialogue, bright-colored nudie comedy was a limited format, and it took a while for him to think of something else. Meanwhile, he ground out more pallid imitations of "Teas." In "Wild Gals of the Naked West" - starring, as "Teas" had, a veteran of Meyer's World War II unit, the 166th Signal Corps (this time Sammy Gilbert) - the girls wore bejeweled pasties, "covering the money," as his producer Pete deCenzie grumbled. Even Meyer wasn't crazy about some of these efforts. In his rampaging autobiography "A clean BREAST! The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer," he writes...
...A380's emergency power unit will be supplied by Hamilton Sundstrand, based in Windsor Locks, Conn. The 44-ft. emergency slides and the 18-ft.-high landing gear will be made by Goodrich, based in Charlotte, N.C. Triumph Group, based in Wayne, Pa., will produce the cargo-door actuation system. A division of Parker Aerospace based in Smithtown, N.Y., is providing fuel measurement and management systems...
...head of Morgan Stanley's investment-banking efforts in India, Kidwai, 45, recently guided that country's fastest-growing telecommunications company, Bharti Tele-Ventures, through its IPO. Her unit also managed an IPO for software provider i-flex solutions at the height of fears of an India-Pakistan war. When she needs to unwind, which is often, Kidwai loves to hike the Himalayan foothills...