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...will have to get the less onerous R rating. "On its first submission, the film did not receive an R," said a Universal spokesman, sounding like an auto executive putting the best spin on a dressing-down by the Obama Administration, "but it is far too early to say that there is any struggle to get there." Translation: the version of Brüno shown to the MPAA was like an out-of-town tryout for a Broadway show or a novel's first draft - except that the script doctors, or editors, are outside agents with the power to tell...
...Motors - whose predecessor, Rick Wagoner, resigned March 29 at the behest of the White House - inherits a company in disarray. Over the next 60 days, Henderson must engineering some kind of comeback for the sputtering carmaker, amid the glare of the media spotlight and mounting public outrage over disappearing auto jobs. (Read "Will Wagoner's Exit Put GM on the Road to Recovery...
...would be worse than expected. It probably is a sign of severe trouble when the electric company is cutting costs. Whether GM goes into bankruptcy or not, it is still shrinking its workforce. Last week 7,600 salaried workers took buyouts. Chrysler has employee buyout offers pending. Several large auto parts suppliers are still cutting people. In other words, industries which were in trouble six months ago are in as much or more trouble now. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
...weeks after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tapped Wall Street financier Steven Rattner to try and save the U.S. auto industry, Rattner sat down for coffee at a nondescript café in Washington with the man he wanted to be his deputy, Ron Bloom. Both men had spent much of their careers in the universe of high finance, but they came from different planets. Thanks to the success of his dealmaking firm, Quadrangle, Rattner, 56, lives atop New York society in an apartment overlooking Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bloom, who turns 54 today, lived until recently...
...Whatever their goals, the two men are well positioned to restructure the auto industry. Rattner can tell management and bondholders what they have to live with. Over the course of the past three months, he has come to believe that the bondholders, who have thus far balked at taking GM stock for much of their debt, made a bad investment and should lose all their money, says one person familiar with the President's auto task force. Rattner also took the point in ousting GM chief Rick Wagoner over the weekend. Bloom, for his part, has taken...