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...BRAVE NEW WORLD...
...Forgive him for appearing distracted. Bielsa, 46, was searching for the answer to a conundrum that would make even a brave man bury his head in the sand. In the next five days, he would have to leave one of two outstanding strikers?Gabriel Batistuta or Hernan Crespo?on the bench. The pair would make any rational list of the five best goal scorers in the world, and either man would find a place on any other World Cup team. But Bielsa's game strategy won't accommodate a pair of out-and-out strikers. There can be only...
Nolan is part of a brave new Hollywood experiment: handing artistically minded directors big budgets and big stars. Gambling on Sam Raimi's character-driven approach to Spider-Man produced a spectacular hit; stage director Sam Mendes scored big with American Beauty and leads Tom Hanks and Paul Newman down the Road to Perdition in July. The formula has risks as well: Doug Liman (Swingers) had a tempestuous tenure as director of The Bourne Identity, the Matt Damon spy thriller...
...Onizawa, who is a celebrity-gossip expert on television, was brave enough to share his story. He says he recognized his assailants from the train: he had asked them to give up their seats for a pregnant woman. They glared at him, then furtively tailed him. "Young men like them have no respect for the older generation," Onizawa laments. "After the economic bubble burst, middle-aged men all lost their confidence. So what the kids today saw growing up were these sad, pathetic father figures...
...witty, irreverent and anti-authority. Her memoir, A Big Life, tells the tale of her agency, Wells Rich Greene; her ardent wooing of clients; her even more ardent love match with Harding Lawrence, the impresario of Braniff Airways; and her battle with cancer. It's as engaging, effervescent and brave as the ads she created. --By Richard Stengel