Word: distributor
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...alleged Iraq connection makes the case especially troublesome on RJR's home turf. To circumvent economic sanctions against Iraq, the lawsuit alleges, RJR used a former employee, who had become a cigarette distributor in Cyprus, to guide its Winstons and Aspens (the top-selling brand in Iraq) to Baghdad. There, Saddam's son Uday, 38, collected "taxes" on them. The trade is so lucrative, the E.U. alleges, that the Iraqi government allows the Kurdish Workers' Party--considered by the U.S. to be a terrorist organization and by Iraq to be a threat to the regime--to deal in cigarettes...
...Lawes got his start in show biz at 17 as a runner for the TV production company of British funnyman John Cleese, and only a few years later helped launch London-based HIT Entertainment, a distributor of children's programming. Lawes pushed HIT to evolve into a creative studio, and today its most popular program, Bob the Builder, an animated show about a construction worker and his talking machines, is aired in 140 countries. One of the top preschool programs in Australia, Britain, Germany and Japan, it has sold 4 million videos in the U.S., where it also plays...
...once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
Broccoli and Wilson have maintained the momentum, with bigger budgets and global talent such as Asian action queen Michelle Yeoh and the enigmatic French actress Sophie Marceau. At MGM, 007's financier and U.S. distributor, vice chairman Chris McGurk insists that "everything is really mutual in terms of approvals," but the studio's only contractual power is to green-light (or not) a film. All else, from script to cast to crew...
...Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters in the background written in Thai that refer to the country's sex industry. The Thai distributor for Aguilera's music label has decided not to air the video on local stations. Chances are, the effort by Thai officials to deny Thailand's reputation as a haven for libertine adventures should prove less of a problem for Aguilera than for Thailand's tourism industry...