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What do you make of the gulf between movies that perform well commercially and those that win awards? It's the difference between what a group of people find admirable and what a bulk of people find useful for entertainment. I don't have any problem with entertainment for entertainment's sake. It's been paying my bills for a long time...
...world is flocking to India, and pleased that Mittal is straddling the global steel business, I sometimes wonder why it is that Indians are more successful outside of India than at home. My fear is that unless we confront this paradox, we will be no more than a bulk market for canny foreigners, a country whose biggest success stories will always lie across the ocean...
...proud town was in need of a lift when it bid for the Winter Games in 1998. As the bulk of Fiat's production moved away, the once-elegant city feared it might share the rusting fate of American carmaking capitals. So in the past decade, Torino has worked to rebrand itself as a center of scientific research and high-tech industry, and as a dynamic cultural destination. It boasts an archeological museum that possesses more artifacts from ancient Egypt - including the sarcophagus of Nefertiti - than anywhere outside of Cairo. The city's symbol, the Mole Antonelliana, a dome-plus...
...looked a lot like Norah but with accessories: a sports bra to keep her breasts under wraps, a manly new flat-top haircut, a weight-lifting routine to bulk out Norah's girly shoulders, and a prosthetic penis to fill out his/her crotch. And Vincent hired a voice coach to teach her to talk like a guy--slowly, with as little expression as humanly possible, keeping those emotions under wraps and the hand gestures to a minimum...
...international imitators takes place in the Austrian capital's State Opera house on Feb. 23?and if you haven't got one of the 5,000 or so tickets yet, you'd better start working the phones. To the old-money types and aristocrats that once made up the bulk of the guest list, the present-day event has been diminished by the inclusion of pop singers, politicians, movie stars and even (shock, horror) the odd porn actress. A ban on smoking, instituted at the 2004 ball, has been another blow to the faithful, as has the introduction of contemporary...