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...Rochester's Nasr says new technologies coming to market now will allow remanufacturers to work with more complex electronic components, things like automotive navigation systems and dvd players that people now tend to throw away when they get old or break. Cars can easily last 10 years, he says, but many gadgets are obsolete within two. He envisions automakers taking cars returned after their two- or three-year leases expire and "refreshing" them with more up-to-date remanufactured components before they're put on sale in the preowned market...
...Pixar movie Ratatouille, which opened yesterday in nearly 4,000 North American theaters; the Japanese science-fiction epic Paprika, now playing in 20 major cities; Aachi & Ssipak, which is playing at the New York Asian Film Festival; Queer Duck: The Movie, the tres gay comedy that's available on DVD; and for old times' sake, this year's Oscar-winning, made-in-Australia animated feature Happy Feet...
...this he's added what people may think is his main job: being a TV host, fronting series of weekly movie-review shows since 1976, first with Gene Siskel, then with Richard Roeper. He's also recorded commentaries for DVD releases of classic films, from Citizen Kane to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the sleazerrific Russ Meyer movie that Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded...
...Movie reviewing is the solitary evaluation of a communal medium. Critics watch films in small screening rooms, or alone on DVD players, then retire in solitude to write up their opinions and insights, to recollect passion in tranquility. Roger does all that; but more than any critic I know, he brings the informed discussion of film out from under the lamp, into daylight. He has used his fame to elevate the conversation, challenging audiences to attend not just to the dramatic and ethical aspects of films but to their visual strategies. (Roger is one of the few film critics...
...living room, Iger saw the way the world was changing. "My two sons, who are 4 and 8, were turning more and more to the computer--rather than the TV, DVD or the video-game console--as their primary form of entertainment," he says. Iger, a longtime technophile, prefers viewing early cuts of his studios' movies and TV shows on the 30-in. cinema-display computer screen on his credenza, not the 50-in. flat-screen television nearby. "The question became, 'What are we as a company going to do about this trend?'" he says. "You can't stand...