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...crippled, and expresses his sensitivity in bitterness. The barber Sweeney Todd, whom Mitchell played the same year for a Stephen Sondheim season in Washington, D.C., kills his customers and sells their ground-up bodies as meat pies. As the put-upon petty criminal (a non-singing role) in August Wilson?s King Hedley II, Mitchell plays a troubled man heading for tragedy. Even his roguish, blustery hero in Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award for Best Actors in a Musical) is a sardonic sort, toying with the temper of his favorite shrew...
...market's low-cost leader. Though the merger had produced cost savings--and wrenching layoffs--profits remained hard to come by. In 2003, despite Fiorina's promises that operating margins would reach 3%, the company's PC division earned a meager 0.1% on $21.2 billion in sales. And last August, the company's Enterprise Servers and Storage Group, which sells to corporate customers, reported a $208 million loss for the quarter...
...August 2002, Maupin's mother recalls, "he just came to me in my bedroom one day and said, 'Mom, I joined the Army Reserve today.' And I said, 'Oh, Matt, you didn't. Why did you do it, especially at this time?' He was old enough so there wasn't anything I could do." Matt told her he signed up to earn money for school. Carolyn, 57, said they could have managed college without his enlisting. "I don't want to manage, Mom," he told her. "I want to get it done." He soon headed off to basic training...
...Coraci's 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan. It was, says De France, a "big door of opportunity thrown open to my career." Yet she had to be coaxed into accepting the part. "I was already involved in a wonderful stage production of [August] Strindberg's Miss Julie with very close friends when the call from Los Angeles came saying I had the part - so I turned it down," admits De France. "It wasn't until several sleepless nights later, after a lot of urging from people, that I heard this voice...
Ruggiero will further hone her skills by practicing and playing up north until August, the start of the U.S. Olympic training that will then become her main focus...