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...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...
About 30% of Western European homes have cable, compared with 68% in the U.S., and powerful satellite players like News Corp.'s BSkyB and Vivendi's Canal Plus feed signals to 20% of the Continent's TV sets. Gross margins in the cable business hover at about 12%--about a quarter of those in the U.S.--and subscribers outside the U.K. bring in only $13 a month in revenue...
...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...
...Moscow was a breeze of official events compared with St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown. The Russian leader insisted on guiding Bush through a dizzying day of sightseeing in the grand, canal-crossed city. Bush, normally more comfortable with baseball on TV and pickup tours of his Texas ranch, took in Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son at the Hermitage and a ballet at the Mariinsky Theater. At the Hermitage, Putin was asked whether he considered Bush an "art lover." Putin replied, artfully, that the perception in Europe that Americans don't appreciate art is "deeply mistaken...
...Vivendi has lost more than half its value, Messier simply looks all wet. And some of his French employees are furious. Last week an internal revolt against Messier spilled into the Paris streets after he fired Pierre Lescure, the popular president of Vivendi's money-losing pay-TV company, Canal Plus. Irate workers--claiming once again that Messier was selling out Gallic culture for profits--commandeered a studio, televised a Messier bash-in and protested near the Champs Elysees. Messier refused to back down, and his board looks certain to stand behind...