Word: barone
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...Instead, Empire distributed the movie only in Haddad's native Lebanon, arguably the most sophisticated media market in the Middle East, where many are familiar with the TV work of Borat's creator, Sasha Baron Cohen. But audience sensibility wasn't the only obstacle in Borat's path: Movies in Lebanon are tightly monitored by a censorship board attached to the General Security Directorate, the country's most powerful intelligence institution. The board has traditionally banned or censored movies that contain anything that might be construed as Israeli propaganda, anything sexually explicit, and anything that might incite or insult...
...since De Toqueville, perhaps, has a visitor to the U.S. uncovered so much about the strange folkways of the natives. The cheerful curiosity of Sacha Baron Cohen's blithely ignorant foreigner is mostly matched by the friendly, if often deranged, behavior of the people he ropes into being themselves. Thus, this happy, hurtful comedy--the gut-bustingly funniest since the South Park movie--is also one of the year's most revealing doc(not just mock)umentaries...
...didn't become one of the world's richest men, and by far its biggest steel baron, by shying away from controversy. Even so, the Indian-born businessman Lakshmi Mittal says he was taken aback by the fury that greeted his announcement in late January that he was bidding to buy European steelmaker Arcelor, formed in 2002 out of what was left of the French, Luxembourgian, Belgian and Spanish steel industries. "We really didn't expect such a violent reaction," Mittal told Time. "A lot of people were obviously not happy at all." [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...girl. THC: I like this, getting a peek into your mind. If I say a celebrity, will you say the first word that comes to mind?: Britney Spears.PH: Cloudy.THC: Tom Cruise.PH: Fart.THC: Paris Hilton.PH: Friend.THC: Clay Aiken. That should be an interesting one.PH: Gay. THC: How about Sacha Baron Cohen?PH: Literate. THC: Nicole Richie.PH: Skinny.THC: What about pinkisthenewblog.com. Friend or competitor?PH: Friend! I mean I don’t really have any competitors. No one’s really doing what I’m doing. THC: Now I know that you’re definitively fabulous...
...another response to stockholders' insatiable demand for rising returns, even for papers with loyal readership and steady ad support. But now that a bevy of bigwig buyers are itching to own prestigious dailies, newspapers in key markets may benefit from a return to private ownership. Why would baron bidders like Hank Greenberg, Jack Welch and David Geffen--who have expressed interest in the Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth newspapers? Perhaps they're aware that 85% of adults either read a paper every week or visit its website. Less...