Word: canals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first place. Either way, I still bought Vivendi shares at ?140. What a jerk. I am ruined and shamed, but in certain ways I came away richer for having learned: • That Messier had a problem with time management. "I give Pierre Lescure two years to turn Canal Plus around" - and two months later he sacks Lescure. "I'll be happy to run Vivendi Universal for another 15 years" - and two days later he resigns. But these are trifles - even I, at times, intend to make love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen...
...poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against him. Messier further alienated his countrymen by publicly firing Pierre Lescure, long-time president of subsidiary Canal Plus, just weeks after giving Lescure two years to reverse the pay TV station's losses. The move provoked open rebellion by the channel's staff and increasing suspicion that Messier was preparing austerity measures to include slashing Canal Plus' funding of French cinema - thus ending its central role...
...along the way with his insistence that American business culture was the future model that Vivendi would have to follow to be successful, a notion that rankled coming from a man who led both France's public water utility and one of its cultural centerpoints, the pay-TV company Canal Plus...
...York and started giving interviews saying that the beloved "cultural exception," subsidies granted by the French government to domestic filmmakers and other artists, was an outdated idea. In April things reached a point of no return when Messier fired Pierre Lescure, the popular president of the money-losing Canal Plus...
...Kuroki, who barely gets the chance to breathe for the entire movie, turns in a heart-wrenching portrayal of maternal sacrifice. Water?in the bathtub, in a sullen black canal that oozes past the apartment building, in the rain that falls constantly throughout the film?is omnipresent. The flat itself seems to cry. This is a horror movie more tragic than terrifying...