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...online magazine Tequila Fancy. International customers were soon savoring formerly inaccessible brands like Centinela, Lapiz and Gran Centenario. A string of new multinational players in the market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order to create new products. Tequila's cachet has also attracted such smaller spiritmakers as Pernod Ricard, which bought Mexico's boutique Tequila Viuda de Romero in January...
...statement made by Bill Gates in his talk with TIME [INTERVIEW, Nov. 22] clearly shows how the Microsoft Ceo thinks. When asked about giving computer makers the right to tailor the opening screen, Gates said, "That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones." Gates' logic in this case is faulty because of the metaphor he selected. The Windows operating system is akin to the printing press rather than to TIME magazine. How would TIME feel if there...
...Tokyo in 1981. Legend has it that after he stood atop a crate and ranted about the company's future domination of the PC industry, his first two employees quit on the spot. Despite that vote of no confidence, Softbank went on to become Japan's leading software distributor...
...Pixar--an independent studio that uses Disney as a distributor--first made a splash back in 1995 with the original Toy Story, the highest grossing movie of that year and the spark that kindled the computer animation glut. (You won't be seeing any more paint/cel animated films for a long time to come....) But Toy Story was special not because it had kids forking over $8 to see the movie a dozen times, but because it brought the adults back to animation. Not since Aladdin or the Lion King had we had indulged in a cartoon that purposely surfed...
NAME: Kevin ("Silent Bob") Smith OCCUPATION: Sanctimonious director BEST PUNCH: To promote Dogma, Smith's new film, which some Catholics have alleged satirizes religion, the movie's distributor ran ads with the slogan "Get Touched by an Angel...