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If the city embraces its guests despite the losses, the most contentious issue will arise. Why would the Hornets return to New Orleans, where the team ranked last in attendance even before Katrina's economic devastation? Critics have accused the owner of the NFL's Saints, Tom Benson, of trying...
Such is life with the franchise billed as "America's Team." On the other hand, far to the north, life is so sweet for the Packers that many are coming to view them as America's real team. Owned by snow-shoveling townspeople rather than a manure-shoveling megalomaniac like...
With audiences hostile to innovation, and in the absence of franchise directors, distributors look for movies that stress heart over art. The three breakout foreign-language hits of the '90s--Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino from Italy and Like Water for Chocolate from Mexico--are nice romantic dramas about love...
Ironically, a large part of the former communications executive's current problems may well be how he communicates--or doesn't. The CEO mayor relies almost exclusively on an ultratight circle of confidants brought in from the halls of business, especially McDonald's franchise baron and fellow millionaire friend David...
Charming British accent? Check. Tuxedo-ready shoulders? Check. Minimal prior blockbuster experience? Check. Liverpudlian DANIEL CRAIG, 37, possessed all the prerequisites to collect the next license to kill from the producers of the James Bond films last week. He also brings one novel quality to the $4 billion franchise: a...