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...With the decline in stock prices over the past six months stopped, people began to go back to Enron for deals. "We were high-fiving ourselves," Watson recalls. "The one thing that could hurt us was another surprise. The infamous one more shoe. Well, the closet hit us on Monday, when they filed the Q-10 [with the SEC] and it contained surprises. They weren't enough to kill the deal, but the fact was they were a surprise. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the stock lost over 50 percent. On Tuesday we were in panic mode. We were scrambling...
...deal - after some very heavy renegotiations, of course - was as good as done, and Dynegy CEO Chuck Watson wouldn't get specific with reporters afterwards about why he killed it. Some reports indicate a fear - or a discovery - of more skeletons lurking in Enron's apparently spacious creative-accounting closet. But it seems more likely that Enron had simply ceased to be worth the trouble. Why buy a corpse when you?ve already pulled the boots off - and it?s starting...
...three writers spent enough time in the fashion world to pick up such nuances. Stiller himself is said to be a closet fashion devotee, insisting on wearing Prada when he played a rabbi in the film Keeping the Faith. The clarity of observation is mixed with metaphors of sport to help the film appeal to a non-fashion crowd. "Do you want to see the real world of male modeling, the one they don?t show you in glossy magazines or on the E! channel?" Zoolander asks a reporter from Time. He then takes her to watch him and Hansel...
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...wedding or reading from a sacred text, he radiates with every self-adoring geture an actor's awareness of the lens... greater than all of (his liabilities in evading his pursuers), to my jaded eye, is his barely containable male vanity, his appetite for self-drama and his closet passion for the limelight." Faux Bin Ladens, particularly those born outside of the privileges and entitlements the real one inherited, may find that a tough act to mimic...