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...HANNA Candy Cruncher Change and challenge are getting familiar to Hanna, 50. He engineered the late-1990s breakup of the British food conglomerate Dalgety after earlier stints in finance at Avis Europe and Guinness. Now Hanna is leaving a London private-equity firm to become CFO of Cadbury Schweppes in April. He will spearhead the confection-and-beverage company's four-year plan to cut costs by closing some factories and shrinking its work force 10%. Also on the agenda: integrating Adams, which Cadbury bought from Pfizer for $4.2 billion, gaining brands such as Trident, Halls and Dentyne...
Elizabeth Biondi wants to be a matchmaker. After a devastating breakup with a boyfriend last summer, the Detroit social worker decided to channel her romantic energy into something constructive. She had always enjoyed setting friends up on dates--why not strangers? So late last month Biondi, 25, hopped on a plane to New York City and enrolled in matchmaking school...
...chick lit doesn't rhyme either), is that a lot of guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady (whom he refers to as "the Goddess"). It's not that...
What led to the breakup? Sources close to talks, speaking to TIME on condition of anonymity, blamed it in part on strained relations between Jobs and Disney CEO Michael Eisner and in part some intractable business differences. Among the reasons for the bad blood: right after the success of Toy Story 2, Pixar creative head John Lasseter wanted to make Toy Story 3. Disney refused, unless the film would not count as one of the five included in the Pixar-Disney deal. That left Lasseter and Jobs fuming. They were also annoyed by the length of the talks, during which...
Just don't try to dig too deep. There may be a pretty jazzy 400-page book lurking somewhere inside Hollywood Animal, but Eszterhas vastly overestimates the reader's interest in the breakup of his first marriage, and in his various health problems, and in the superfine details of his wheelings and dealings and squealings with studio executives. Even worse, there's a fundamental lack of self-insight here. Eszterhas wants to spin himself as a Hollywood outsider, a self-righteous desperado who took the town for all it was worth and then rode off into the sunset (he moved...