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...what was really going on. Knowing that others had got into trouble after challenging Skilling, who by then was CEO of the entire company, Watkins began scouting for a new job ... But on Aug. 14, Skilling abruptly quit, and Lay invited employees to put any concerns in a comment box. The next morning Watkins sat at her computer and tapped out her first anonymous one-page memo in a single two-hour flourish. 'I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals,' she wrote." Read more at timearchive.com...
...Cockatoo, explore the G.D.R. and its 100,000-strong secret-police force, the Stasi, not as the subject of comedy but of cruelty and farce. The Lives of Others, which swept the prestigious Lola German Film Awards this month in Berlin, is going strong at the German box office with its story of a successful stage actress whose life is destroyed by a lecherous Culture Minister and the Stasi. The director of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 33, says he did not set out to make a political point but wanted to personalize the period. "Cinema...
...Denied an audience at home, Offside's fate is that of many Iranian films when they dare to question the status quo: it has become a hit on the international festival circuit and in Western art-house cinemas. But a funny thing happened on the way to the foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year's Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, which is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Then, in advance of February's Berlin International Film Festival, at which Panahi's film picked up the Silver Bear, a group...
...experience in Katrina taught us the same thing our parents taught us--to be self-sufficient, self-responsible, disciplined and organized," he says, a look of humor mixed with pain in his eyes. His staff members kidded him when he showed up the night before Katrina with a "hurricane box" containing a sledgehammer and life jackets. They laugh no more, he says. This year Charity, which can barely sustain an emergency room in a defunct Lord & Taylor store, plans to shut down and evacuate for anything greater than a tropical storm...
...haven't seen him since Kyoto." - that were brought to the adjoining reception and then recounted and analyzed as part of the night's real entertainment: the Al Gore presidential run Ouija board. When people asked, "So, what do you think?" after this premiere, they weren't talking box office but Oval...