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...expert in hookers," Shirley Maclaine once said. She was speaking about the limited repertoire for actresses in Hollywood. Things have improved a bit over the years for female stars, but behind the camera, it's a different story. Consider this: according to statistics recently compiled by Martha M. Lauzen, a professor at San Diego State University, men directed 90% of the top 250 movies released in 2001, while the ranks of female directors (and writers) dwindled from the previous year...
...talk to strangers" has limited value if the stranger doesn't come off as a potential threat to a child. Young children often envision strangers as evil looking and might not identify a well-dressed, soft-spoken man looking for help finding his dog as someone to distrust. Security expert Gavin de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift (Little Brown), says parents must educate their kids to be assertive and, specifically, to yell and tell. "When someone tells your child 'Don't yell,' that's when they should yell 'This isn't my dad!' and scream for help, and when...
...mousy, overworked executive secretary (Emmanuelle Devos) is given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless...
Despite recent claims by some in the bioterrorism community that the investigation should be homing in on one particular American bioweapons expert (who denies any involvement), the FBI appears to be moving in the opposite direction. U.S. government officials say the investigation is still ranging far and wide and that the FBI has not ruled out a foreign connection. The charred remains thought to belong to hijackers from United Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, and American Airlines Flight 77, which smashed into the Pentagon, were examined for anthrax residue. None was found. All told, more than...
...Houston Astros flocked to Enron Field, and Tennessee Titans ticket holders went to Adelphia Coliseum for their home games--until earlier this year, when both troubled companies were unable to pay the millions of dollars required to keep their logos in lights. Dean Bonham, a sports-marketing expert in Denver who helps companies buy naming rights, says there are more than 60 multiyear naming deals in the U.S., worth a total of about $3.5 billion. Five of the arenas with such deals have lost or switched sponsors this year alone, and the trend shows no sign of stopping...