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...makes movie stars the industry's supersalesmen. And no one closes a deal with more assurance or grace than George Clooney. Not that all his pictures are blockbusters. Since A Perfect Storm in 2000, only the Ocean's (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen) capers have topped $100 million at the domestic box office. But Clooney - handsome and affable, and blessed with a wit that can charm and cut - is surely the modern idea and ideal of stardom. Other celebrities seem tortured by public attention; Clooney bathes in it. He loves making the sale...
...critics and most of the Caucasian movie audience to clean up with $24 million - while the rest staggered. It's as if the longest possible summer stanza (from May 1 to Sept. 7) had finally collapsed from satiety. Hollywood would say it was a grand gorging: all-time box-office records were broken both in North America and abroad...
...business development people," he wrote in one e-mail to top executives, according to the court document. "You are going to have to go into the margin - either commit to spending the money, or pull the plug on this now before ArmorGroup looks more stupid than a box of rocks." (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...there will be some things that only individuals and parents can do themselves. And we can have the best science and math training programs in the world, the best sponsors in the world, but if parents aren't telling their kids to turn off the video box and go do some work...
...principal, it was possible for agents to write checks to benefit themselves and clean out a principal's bank account. Now such doings will be harder to get away with. If the principal wants to grant the agent the specific power to make gifts, the principal must initial a box on the POA authorization form, and then describe the types of gifts on a separate statutory major-gifts rider. The rider must contain the signature of the principal and two witnesses and also be notarized...