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...first international experience," he says, running a hand over his shaven head. "I guess I'll never come back to Russian movies. For me, as an investor, it's not interesting. Any guy in the world dreams of being involved in American movies." This is the great exchange: Hollywood cachet for the right to till these new fields of Russian wealth. But the ground can be treacherous. Hollywood producer and consultant Robert Cain spent several years working in Moscow, and though he has hopes for the future, he has little positive to say about the current state of Russian moviemaking...
...Corson's is one of two recent books to track sushi's evolution from a street snack in Edo Japan to yuppie haute cuisine to fast food served on conveyor belts. The surge of interest among non-Japanese writers underscores sushi's current international cachet. Corson argues that that popularity is actually undermining sushi's quintessential Japaneseness: it has become a truly global food. Indeed, he tells his story primarily through a young American woman training at a sushi academy, not in Tokyo, but in Los Angeles. Corson spends altogether too much time describing her floundering "battle with fish...
...show didn't have the cachet or the clout of Carson's. But Griffin and his producers were smart enough to realize that to compete they had to take more chances, and that made him more receptive to some of the era's most groundbreaking new talent. George Carlin and Richard Pryor were little-known stand-up comics performing in the folk and jazz clubs of Greenwich Village in 1965 when scouts from Griffin's show discovered them just weeks apart and booked them on the show. Griffin gave both of them multi-show contracts and had them on regularly...
...past 18 years in six minutes, but would be incapable of getting from Point A to Point B if the two weren’t connected by miles of underground track. In New York, though, this isn’t an indication of incompetence. Instead, it carries the cachet of never having lived outside the sophisticated metropolis...
...story." Indeed Italy's manufacturing model - built largely on small and midsize companies that turn out easily replicable products from light fixtures and heavy tools to sofas and office chairs - has proved particularly vulnerable to Chinese competition, though Italians hope that their luxury consumer brands, valued for their European cachet and design, can attract China's burgeoning shopping class, and help stave off a looming trade-imbalance crisis...