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...Gist: Scholars tend to lionize directors who develop groundbreaking styles or who come to dominate and define a genre - men like Hitchcock, Welles, Hawks and Ford. But what of the filmmaker who didn't try to stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment - even a work in progress - and mold it to perfection? In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow argues that Fleming - who directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind - was such a man, denied his rightful place...
Read about GM's, Ford's and Chrysler's bailout plans...
...been a tense week, and not just for Detroit's CEOs. In recent days employees of the Big Three in Detroit have been going about their jobs as a life and death debate waged in Washington. Just this week, executives from General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor were offering reporters sneak previews of vehicles due out in 2009 and 2010 despite huge uncertainty surrounding their future. "We've got to stay focused on what we do," notes Ed Welburn, GM vice president of design, who says his designers have no choice but to keep the creative energy high...
...Though Ford is not receiving any of the $13.4 billion TARP funds, President and CEO Alan Mulally also expressed gratitude. Mulally also reiterated Ford's intent to stick to the plan it recently submitted to Congress, calling for the company to return to pre-tax profitability by 2011. That plan includes introducing more fuel-efficient vehicles - including a broader range of hybrid-electric vehicles. This week, Ford said it is doubling the output of hybrid vehicles in 2009. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...Ford has asked the government for access to a line of credit of up to $9 billion in bridge financing, but reiterated that it hopes to complete its transformation without accessing these funds...