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...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...
...homes of its executives precipitated the stock market swoon. But the glee among the staid suits of Tokyo comes from what Horie has come to represent. Over the last few years, he has become the chieftain of a tribe of internet entrepreneurs who hang out in the shiningly chic Roppongi Hills complex. To this Hills Tribe, the future of business was the internet, in sharp contrast to the long-established Square Tribe of neckties and suits who still consider manufacturing the only respectable industry. To the Squares, Horie and the Hills were playing a speculative ?money game? with no tangible...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack it.But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I’m sure...
...failing American actress, Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson). As Chris grows both more successful in London society and more involved with Nola, he seems to be propelled by unnaturally good luck, until he is forced to make a critical choice between his two lives. Rhys-Meyers (the heroin-chic soccer coach from “Bend it like Beckham”) adroitly portrays one of the most fascinating characters in recent cinema. Chris is at once despicable and admirable, gripped by paranoia as he faces the temptations of wealth and beauty. Rhys-Meyers skillfully contorts his gorgeous face to convey...
...reopening of the eight-year-old Hotel Maya, after a $10 million makeover, may change that. The hotel is in the busy heart of the Malaysian capital, but top local architect Sonny Chan?a specialist in tropical architecture?has managed to give it the air of a chic, beachfront getaway. Earth tones and black and white predominate, with splashes of crimson and fuchsia. Cast iron and natural-looking materials such as rope and bamboo are liberally employed in the public areas and in the 207 rooms, which come with luxe, 250-threadcount linens and espresso machines. Executive chef Adam Haywood...