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...engineer who speaks six languages, Ghosn is a legend in auto circles for transforming Nissan from clunker to race horse. Puncturing the myth that no foreigner could change Japan's clubby corporate culture, he laid off thousands, revitalized product design, streamlined Nissan's supplier network--and became a cult hero in the local press. Nissan's 11% operating margin is among the industry's highest. Sales are up 12.7% this fiscal year, and Nissan projects net income to hit a record $4.2 billion. Renault's finances are considered solid, and Ghosn wants to expand logistics and parts-sharing deals between...
DIED. LOTTE BERK, 90, German-born dancer who created a body-conditioning program based on a hybrid of yoga, dance and calisthenics; in Hungerford, England. The Lotte Berk method--with its sometimes suggestive positions and names (e.g., the Prostitute)--attracted a cult following among women in swinging 1960s London...
When it comes to recasting films as Broadway musicals, Meehan's got cachet in movie circles. Last year he helped turn John Waters' 1988 cult film Hairspray into a Broadway blockbuster. Waiting in the wings--until he completes revisions of the London hit Bombay Dreams for New York audiences--is Sylvester Stallone's Rocky...
...thug Elvis and Malcolm X reborn as a rapper. Since he predicted his own demise and since the movie of his life and death is called Tupac: Resurrection, we may as well surrender to hip-hop hype and say Tupac Shakur was the gangsta Jesus. True to his cult status, Shakur's myth blossomed after his death. So did his estate. It earned a lively $12 million last year. As with the deaths of so many celebs, his was a pity, an irony, a great career move...
...congratulate your Fifteen Minutes reporters for their superb piece on Yale social life (“The Cult of Yale,” Nov. 20). Rarely has any publication—on this campus or any other—so perfectly captured what defines the social scene of which we Yalies are so proud...