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...editor? She names decisiveness as her greatest strength, and the movie shows her making good decisions, rapidly and repeatedly. The first picture Wintour vetoes from Coddington's treasured shoot is distractingly fussy and rococo. Grace mopes, but the magazine benefits. At the film's climax, Cutler plays up the drama of Coddington's refusal to allow an appealing but not-quite-model-standard image to be digitally nipped and tucked at Wintour's request. It's lively storytelling, except that Wintour's suggestion seems more like playful banter - an attempt to be charming for the documentary crew - than an edict...
...parties work through these prickly issues on the main stage, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel promising as much as $7 billion in badly needed state aid to Opel if Magna emerges victorious, another drama is developing behind the scenes. Some of Magna's biggest customers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Chrysler and Volkswagen, may decide to move future contracts with Magna to suppliers who are not in the business of selling cars. (Read "Merkel Saves Opel from GM's Fate...
Before the drama Mad Men could return for its third season, AMC and creator Matthew Weiner had to resolve a conflict over - fittingly for a series set on Madison Avenue - advertising. The network wanted to add two minutes of ads; Weiner didn't want to cut the show. The eventual compromise - each episode will run an hour and two minutes - preserves the show's generous run time, 48 minutes or so sans commercials, compared with 42-ish for most network dramas. And what does Mad Men need the extra time...
Obama's Health-Care Drama...
...told police "just did not like Billings at all" and who described the deceased as a loan shark. But the sheriff believes "the pieces are coming together." Billings, like his competitors, many of whom owed him money, inhabited a Florida panhandle business world that resembled a tawdry cable TV drama series. "Bud Billings was a very hard-nosed, unyielding businessman because he had to be," Morgan says. "He was in a high-risk business, loaning money to the kind of people who can't get it anywhere else...