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...have to credit M. Night Shyamalan for bringing horror back to the Hollywood mainstream," says Walter F. Parkes, the DreamWorks exec who produced the U.S. Ring movies and has optioned the Korean doomed-family epic The Tale of Two Sisters. "The Sixth Sense was beautifully shot, well written, with a mature approach to the genre." It also grossed $294 million at the North American box office. That number will scare up a lot of converts...
CAROLYN KEPCHER Carolyn 101 (Simon & Schuster; October) The Trump exec who sat to his left in the dreaded boardroom mentors women on the dos and don'ts of exploiting their...
Pharmaceutical companies have always had a ready defense for high prices: given the hefty costs of drug development and the high chances of failure, they argue, big profits are necessary in order to fund continued R&D. Defending Xalatan’s price tag, a Pharmacia exec (that company has since been bought out by Pfizer) told the New York Times, “We are bringing forth innovation . . . and innovation always brings a premium.” True, but how much incentive do these companies really need? After all, taxpayer dollars paid for 85 percent of the basic...
...Worldwide Whopper Man How does a guy who has never worked in a restaurant spend his first days as a fast-food honcho? Flipping burgers. Since being named president of Burger King International last month, Kankiwala, 45, has been working at Burger Kings around the globe. The Indian-born exec had been running European business for Pepsi, where he presided over eight straight quarters of market-share growth. He hopes to sate Burger King's hunger for growth by increasing its presence in new markets...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...