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...Hannibal's parents and round up the local children. "We have to eat or die," one deserter tells them - the kids are to be killed, cooked and eaten. That fate befalls Mischa (who, at two, is oddly thought to have more meat on her than her eight-year-old brother). Hannibal must watch as the brutes boil and devour her; he faints away, and when he comes to he does not speak for five years...
Harvey Weinstein has a perfect ending in mind for Miramax Films, the company he and his brother Bob were forced to leave behind in 2005 when they departed the Walt Disney Co. after 12 colorful years. In Harvey's final scene, the two snag back the name from the media giant, which has turned Miramax into a déclassé, financially diminished Mouse brand. Harvey, the brash movie mogul who helped spin the low-budget indie-film trade into a booming business, doesn't need more wealth. And he's not pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware...
...boys had good reason to celebrate. They got not only an estimated $130 million in goodbye bucks but also fabulous parting gifts: shared distribution rights to completed pictures, brother Bob's lucrative Dimension Films label, sequel rights to (and split proceeds from) 15 movies, including Scary Movie, Scream and Spy Kids. The Weinsteins had both capital and content--starting anew but not a start-up, says...
...built for serious business. In this book of pictures taken from 1990 to 2005, the celebrity pics, with their industrial-strength charm, are back--the naked and pregnant Demi Moore, Brad Pitt languishing on an orange bedspread--but there are informal family shots as well, like one of her brother and father, below, and many pictures of her longtime beloved, the writer Susan Sontag, even as the ailing Sontag ventures toward death. Leibovitz's unflinching final portrait of her, laid out just after she died, is unforgettable...
Many banks, fearing the Big Brother aspect of biometrics, have chosen in-depth analysis of customers' online behavior as a backup. Such monitoring can then determine whether a certain customer needs a higher level of security, like a token or an RFID tag. "Some of the most advanced technology we're seeing is those tokens being embedded in something that a consumer is carrying every day, such as a cell phone or credit card," says cybersecurity expert Fran Rosch of VeriSign, a leader in online authentication. "That makes it less likely to be lost." Less likely, but not impossible...