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...course, Winslet would rather be acting onscreen, which is, she says, "the one thing that I do for myself" - and lately the thing she has been doing better than just about anyone else. In an industry that insists that most actresses remain giggly, pliable and princessy well into middle age, Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader...
...says, "I think I won't do it again: a) I can't keep getting away with it, and b) I don't want to become 'that actress who always gets her kit off.' " But she wondered if she could handle a German accent, play Hanna convincingly into old age and find a foothold in a character who exemplifies the banality of evil. "You don't have to make the audience like you. And not worrying about that makes the job much more interesting," she says. "But I did say to myself, Come on, Kate. You don't have...
...much like a car. Once a household has two or three of something, no matter how useful it is, sales of that item are going to slow down. The PC is no exception. IBM (IBM) brought its PC to market in 1981 and launched the age of personal computing. The first machine went for $1,565, so for all the processing power that new machines have, pricing has not changed much...
...race is already on to see who will get the customers for the new age of wireless products and services. The dark horse is Sprint (S) which is in an alliance with Intel (INTC), Clearwire (CLWR) and several other technology companies to build an ultrafast WiMax network. The more successful operations like Verizon are putting their money on Long Term Evolution (LTE) products...
...Seven years later, Saint Laurent and his then companion and lifelong business partner Pierre Bergé would buy the first of three Mondrian paintings as they began building one of the great art collections of modern times. On Feb. 23-25, eight months after Saint Laurent's death at age 71, Christie's will sell off the pair's entire collection - paintings and sculptures, antiquities and furniture - in an unprecedented auction at Paris' Grand Palais. Despite the economic crisis, experts say the rarity and quality of the works virtually ensures the sale will shatter the all-time auction record...