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Some of these celebrity opportunities are risky, however, as bad, cookie-cutter holiday entertainment can turn into a recipe for disaster. Well-respected celebs can blatantly showcase their unbridled capitalistic greed and thinly-veiled exploitation of fan base, or, as in the case of Will Farell’s Elf, gamble with projects that may completely flop and/or irreparably tarnish their image...
...Thou?) was taken from a Preston Sturges movie, now launch a full, fond invasion of Sturges territory. In the tradition of The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, this is a farce with chic repartee, devious twists and a cheerfully sardonic take on the human need for greed. Intolerable Cruelty sends moviegoers back to the '40s, when pretty people said witty things. It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape...
Never mind that Grasso had agreed, even before it was made public, to forgo the additional $48 million. For many the gesture was too late. The episode had already become a painful reminder of the cronyism and greed that thrived during the Internet bubble. It may be worse in this case because the N.Y.S.E. is a quasi-regulatory body that should be setting the standard for responsible management. Sources at the SEC say Donaldson has long been concerned about excessive CEO pay, an area of abuse he is determined to clean up. A senior SEC official told TIME that...
...shop for new classes this week, consider this: the pandemic of corporate narcissism, greed, rigidity and sheer cluelessness that you have been reading about all summer is a sign of the ripening conditions for economic revolution. We are facing a once-in-a-century opportunity for wholesale innovation and extreme creativity comparable to the rise of mass markets and mass production nearly 100 years ago. It is a time for a new generation—yours—to reinvent capitalism for our times. Your fresh insight and heart can ignite the next wave of wealth creation capable of carrying...
...record companies - or any American company - even suggest that their consumers be guided by integrity and honesty when corporate America outdoes itself each week in reaching new heights of greed and dishonesty? In the market struggle between producers and consumers, wouldn't it be a sign of stupidity for consumers to adhere to a Geneva Convention-style code of conduct while corporations are allowed to pursue any legal or illegal means to maximize profits and re-write the code? Dan Centennial, Colo...