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...local cultural environment." In Mexico, the hero plays soccer, not basketball, while his Argentinean counterpart plays rugby. Similar local HSM-inspired movies are planned for Brazil, Russia and India - where the hero will be a cricketer. These spin-offs - which come with marketing tie-ins of their own - allow Disney "to become a real global company," observes Lerner. "By making local movies on top of the original, we're adding value on top of value." As the Disney song observes, it's a small world. High School Musical is making it even smaller. (Click here for Top 10 Teen Idols...
...Deep Throat millions never got to Damiano - how does a director put muscle on the Mafia? - but it did allow him to pursue his dream of being a respected film auteur, though still in hardcore. Most directors with a left-field mega-hit would instantly crank out another picture in the same genre. Not Damiano. He used his cash, and cachet, from his silly porno comedy to make a super-serioso drama: Devil in Miss Jones. And this time under his own name. Reading the script, Reems told his friend: "Gerry, it's a steal. This is No Exit...
...fiddling with mark-to-market accounting (in which a bank's assets are assessed at market value) could have an affect on banks' financial earnings by "obscuring the realities." He warns that changing the current standard might "provide more room to manipulate earnings sometime in the future" and could "allow bankers to hide big unrealized losses on their bond portfolios." But Tokyo apparently wants to put out its major conflagration now and worry about the potential brushfires later...
...Finucane and the firm Ernst and Young to create a strategic plan that would address its financial problems. But progress on that plan was “scrambled” when the state announced the additional cuts, Finucane said. There will be a community meeting on Nov. 6 to allow residents to comment on the strategic plan that CHA is developing. —Staff Writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...difference between the captives taken for trial in Paris and those handed over in Puntland, says Baptiste, is that French law allow those who have attacked French citizens to be tried, whereas its jurisdiction would not easily stretch to pirates waiting to strike in far-off international waters. And while Baptiste does not say as much, there's reason to believe that the French may have learned enough in the course of interrogating the nine to make it politically dangerous for their warlord masters to set them free. "We know who the pirates are, where they come from, what clan...