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...Whitney is visiting from his home outside Orlando, Fla., promoting his new movie out May 11, Delta Farce. He's in the middle of telling me how he passes time on the road - watching cattle auctions on his computer - when it becomes clear that Whitney and I both know our waiter, Russell, an aspiring screenwriter. (Often the really talented people in L.A. are the ones serving the rest of us hacks lunch). Russell helped write a movie in which Whitney is considering taking a role. Russell also lived in the same dorm with me at college. "What are the odds...
...Delta Farce, Whitney is taking on the war on terror in a trenchant political drama... Oh, who are we kidding? The fart jokes are back, people. This time Larry and his buds, played by fellow Blue Collar alum Bill Engvall and gangly character actor DJ Qualls, are bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq. "I love what I do and I don't take myself too seriously," says Whitney, 44. "This character is fun. It gives me a chance to take that little bit of me - how I grew up - and magnify it. I could care less about doing a huge...
...native of Seattle, Grinstein took his first flight on Northwest 70 years ago and has spent his entire career in planes and trains. He helped form one of the largest railroads in the U.S., saved Western Airlines by merging it with Atlanta-based Delta in 1987, and last year steered Delta past a hostile $9.8 billion takeover bid by U.S. Airways Group. A Delta director since 1987, Grinstein introduced more narrow-bodied aircraft for the airline's short-haul markets, doubled its international business to 36% of revenue and strengthened New York's John F. Kennedy Airport...
Grinstein's successor as CEO (the front runners are Delta's COO James Whitehurst and CFO Edward Bastian) faces a massive reorganization plan. He will also have to overcome the reputation of airline management as inept--a rap that makes Grinstein bristle. Airlines, he says, are uniquely vulnerable and volatile--even "the latest darling of the industry, JetBlue." "Are we worse run than automobiles? Than the steel companies?" asks Grinstein. "Bob Crandall [former American Airlines CEO] used to say the difficulty in this industry is that you're at the mercy of your dumbest competitor." Airline executives, he says...
...last months as boss, Grinstein is focused overseas. He has five 777s on order for routes to Asia but is still considering Boeing's Dreamliner and the Airbus 380. In March 2008, Delta will start six daily nonstops out of Heathrow. And if the rest of the industry catches up with Delta, well, Grinstein did come out of retirement once before...