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...rude awakenings. When Omar Epps caught an early screening of The Mod Squad last year, he hoped for at least a modest success. After all, he had trounced many of Hollywood's hot young black actors and even a few rap stars for the spot opposite Claire Danes and Giovanni Ribisi in this Gen X version of the cult TV series. Once the screening began, however, Epps quickly lost interest and shut his eyes to escape the boredom. "I fell asleep," he recalls. "When I finally woke up, I looked around and said, 'S___, this movie is gonna bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Looking to Score | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) makes money the old-fashioned way: he has turned his college-dropout pad into a mini-casino, where he deals blackjack. It's a nice living, but not a lifestyle that offers much in the way of parental bragging rights. This is a matter of some moment to Seth's sour father (Ron Rifkin), a federal judge who has sentenced his son to life in the doghouse for his slacker ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's All in the Selling | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

Boiler Room traces the steps of 19 year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a college dropout who enters into a success-driven, overly aggressive stock brokerage firm, which happens to be one of the biggest scams in American history. J.T. Marlin brokerage firm recruits money-hungry, twenty-something, want-to-be brokers, who know nothing and want nothing but money...

Author: By Jill Kou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Under the [White] Collar | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...illustrates, hiring and keeping employees is perhaps the biggest challenge to small businesses today. In a survey conducted last month by the National Association of Manufacturers, 83% of respondents said they found it extremely difficult to find and retain employees. The problem is as much quality as quantity. Says Giovanni Coratolo, director of small-business policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The No. 1 challenge of small businesses in this marketplace is hiring those who have a certain amount of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling With Success | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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