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...India's animators to gain the acceptance of clients who don't think of India as an animation center. A.K. Madhavan, Crest's CEO, recalls fruitless sales trips he made to the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. "Had we known how tough it would be to get a breakthrough," Madhavan admits in retrospect, "we might not have kept going." Persistence and a little good fortune helped Madhavan get his big break. While in Texas in 2001, he met with an independent animation producer named Mike Young, who happens to share Madhavan's passion for cricket. The two bonded and Young...
...Arthur, she says, "I had to work out physically quite a bit, but pretty much it's scream a lot and enjoy being painted blue." (Her Guinevere wears so much blue war paint that she looks like the world's most ferocious Smurf.) Knightley is similarly dismissive of her breakthrough role in Bend It Like Beckham and her beatific cameo in Love Actually. Few actresses talk as frankly about the artistic limits of their work or as exuberantly about their physical imperfections. (Knightley likes to point out her acne for those who can't see it.) Few actresses also refuse...
None of the improvements are breakthrough retailing ideas, but by sprucing up displays and introducing higher-end products, Home Depot can get each shopper to spend a little more. Home Depot's best-selling ceiling fan used to be a $19 model; now it's a $199 model. In the first quarter, the average ticket rose 7.4%, to $55.11, a record for Home Depot, although still below the $59 average ticket of Lowe...
...breakthrough also created problems. One is logistical. Whether you assemble a massive sound system or opt for a simplified "home theater in a box," you have to figure out where to place five speakers plus the subwoofer. Then there's the noise issue. If you live in an apartment, or with someone who doesn't share your love of theatrical sound, your movie nights may produce a great deal of volume--and a few enemies...
...Cosby's commentary is also strikingly similar to the words of a younger, hipper cultural critic: comedian Chris Rock. In Rock's "Niggas vs. Black people" routine from his breakthrough 1996 "Bring the Pain" tour, Rock contrasted the values of middle class blacks with lower-income blacks who had succumbed to a kind of gangsta despair. Among Rock's observations: some blacks liked watching movies in cinemas, other liked shooting them up; some blacks tried to be responsible, others thought if they merely took care of their babies they were doing something special. "There's like a civil war going...