Word: biz
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...comix industry awards perfectly reflect the nature of the business: the Eisners have a reputation as the "mainstream" awards and the Harveys as the "altys," while neither one particularly matters to anyone outside the biz. The Harveys are due to announce their nominees later this month. This past week the nominee list for the Eisners was announced. Inevitably everyone will wonder how certain things got left off and certain things got on. I can tell you because I was tapped as one of the judges for this year's Eisners. Here is the inside scoop, behind the green door...
...stars in a TV series that wins its time slots on two different networks. She co-starred in one Hollywood film last month (Agent Cody Banks) and has her name alone above the title in another opening in May (The Lizzie McGuire Movie). A 10-year show-biz veteran, she receives a staggering 375,000 fan e-mails a week, asking advice on fashion, makeup and boyfriends...
...seemingly an impossible dream. A year earlier Warner Bros. had released the first (partial) talkie, The Jazz Singer, and the movie biz was in a tizzy. The Al Jolson movie was awful, but the man sang and spoke. A long-sought miracle had arrived. Unfortunately, the camera, heavily blimped to prevent its whirrings from being recorded, was immobilized. Movies could talk but could no longer move gracefully...
...leaders and try to sell them on moving their companies to New York. And he'll also meet London's Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone. The odd couple will talk about London's new congestion charge - something else Bloomberg is interested in importing. Does it pay to decamp? Here's Biz Watch's tale of the tape...
...huge job engine; the businesses launched under Home Sweet Home involve around 80 employees. But some are impressed. "I was surprised to see how many solid and savvy business partners were already here," says Olivier Zelphati, returning after eight stateside years to start his own bio-biz. "It's got virtually all California has." Plus the Mediterranean. Vive la Sickie! Workaholics they're not, but a new study by the U.K.'s Trades Union Congress says British employees do have an addiction that cost the economy €3.37 billion last year. Some 14.8 million workdays are lost annually because...