Word: gangsterisms
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Best Adapted Screenplay could logically go to any one of its nominees except, perhaps, to the most deserving, the Portuguese-language gangster epic City of God. Capturing the Friedmans and Fog of War seemed locked in a taut two-man battle for Documentary Feature until My Architect quietly reaped enough attention to bestow it front-runner status. The Return of the King will likely sweep up most of the technical awards as Best Picture forerunners are prone to do, but the vivid restoration of 19th century Japan in The Last Samurai will give it a run for its money...
...assault, noting that Kerry also opposes the death penalty, although he makes an exception for terrorists. You can see the ad now: Does Kerry really believe, the narrator might say, that it's O.K. to execute an al-Qaeda operative who blows up a bus but not a gangster who shoots up a restaurant? Republicans will also press Kerry on one of this year's hot-button issues, gay marriage. They are already eagerly flagging the fact that Kerry was one of just 14 Senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, signed by Bill Clinton...
...Masakazu Takei, who assumes the sartorial swagger of a Japanese gangster, is not someone to be feared. He is founder and president of Little More, a company that not only publishes hit novels, magazines and art and photography books but also produces films and plays, releases CDs, runs a gallery and curates exhibitions around the world...
...Scottish pub recently turned away a respectable patron for sporting Burberry accessories. (The situation recalls other brand hijackings, such as Mitsubishi-tagged ecstasy tablets and gangster-rappers praising Lexus.) A Burberry spokeswoman pointed out that it does not need the attention - half-year profits rose 21% this year. Dubbed "Suburberry" for spreading beyond its niche, the brand may be getting too familiar. Burberry - majority-owned by retailer GUS - needs to broaden its look "and reinforce its price and distribution," says Andy Palmer, account director at London-based ad agency St. Luke's. The company is trying to wean itself...
Over the past decade, oligarchs and oil have shaped the contours of the Russian landscape. After the Cold War, Russia was taken over by a handful of gangster-oligarchs, who purchased the country’s oil companies from the nation’s insolvent banks. The companies were corrupted by their leaders, who received manufactured goods at below-market prices and sold them at normal rates. Profits were retained outside Russia, and the country was, to say the least, robbed—for as much as $500 billion from 1993 to 1998. These egregious steals cultivated animosity among Russian...