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...Charles Gray BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. The Hancock County Historical Society executive director is upbeat despite the loss of a home with precious antiques and paintings...
...wonderful to encounter movie people when they have just come off a tough location shoot, especially if they are as bright and observant as Spalding Gray, who had a small part in The Killing Fields when it was shot in Thailand in 1983. As one of those functionaries who mainly sit around waiting for the screw-ups to be corrected, Gray used his time to work up a funny monologue in which his experiences, giddily exaggerated, commented on the folly and wastefulness of human enterprise. Further, Gray had the wit not to waste his routine in living rooms. He staged...
...writer-performer understands that a movie company working in the Third World is a colonial microcosm. Its technology is imperious in its imperatives; its largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails...
Miller is far from alone. Baby boomers who for one reason or another retire early are increasingly starting reverse-gender businesses. The phenomenon is growing at a rate of about 20% a year, estimates John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based international outplacement firm. The boomers, often disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel...
...normally preferable in mega companies--youth and employees working in traditional gender roles--is less important in the world of the self-employed, points out Michael Stull, who directs a center for entrepreneurship at California State University at San Bernardino. "Clients and customers don't care if you have gray hair and if you're a man running a business in a woman's world or vice versa," Stull says. "They want to know that you have experience and that you can do the job better than anyone else, and often prefer someone who is older and more seasoned...