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...BIZ VMAIL $20 Kids record a voice message, encrypt it with a secret code, then send it to a friend using the built-in radio technology...
...bespoke suits, telling well-turned anecdotes about his favored adulthood and pained childhood. A knighted Anglophile, he risked his career speaking against U.S. isolationism before World War II, fought bravely in it (he was childishly vain about his medals) and was a little resentful, later on, when show biz didn't give him any Old Guy awards. But by then he was the Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing-room comedy revivals, his welcomes were thunderous. He pretended astonishment but basked...
...Griffith created Intolerance, a four-part movie set in different ages, all stories converging at the climax. Figgis is more modest: he has four interlocking sketches of show-biz life (all shot simultaneously), one for each quadrant of a split screen. The mood is tres California: four earthquakes and a dying man taking a cell-phone call! When things go slack, you can stare at some of the world's most watchable women (Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Golden Brooks). But this spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment. Nice try, folks. Now go back...
...government's anti-monopoly men to the last bullet, but a group of similarly accused corporate giants have decided to raise the white flag. The result: That coveted CD of Britney Spears' warblings will now be $2 to $5 cheaper at a music store near you. The music biz's Big Five - Sony, Bertelsmann, EMI, Universal and Time Warner (corporate cousin to this web site) - which control 85 percent of the $15 billion CD market, settled with the FTC Wednesday on charges that they've been leaning for years on music retailers to fix CD prices by threatening to withhold...
...once you've resigned yourself to even less sleep and more stress than you experienced at Harvard, how do you go about breaking into the biz...