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...needed a change. I didn't want to be a caricature. There's nothing worse than that guy who's still rocking his whatever it was 20 years after his heyday. The world's moved on, and you're stuck...
...hopeful start, for which director Chris Columbus deserves some credit. On his own, Columbus is no hit machine: his last two features, Rent and I Love You, Beth Cooper, earned only $29 million and $15 million, respectively. But as the launch deliverer for kids'-movie series, the guy is peerless. He directed the first two Home Alone comedies and the first two Harry Potter films, which together amassed nearly $2.7 billion at the worldwide box office...
...Holmes ($204 million) and The Book of Eli (which will hit $100 million before it's finished) have capitalized on blood and fisticuffs. Indeed, depending on whether you count Avatar as a love story or a war epic (it's both), it's been three months since an unadulterated guy movie took the top spot: 2012, on the weekend of Nov. 13-15. Since then: New Moon, The Blind Side, The Princess and the Frog, Avatar, Dear John and Valentine...
...Hohenlohe also points out that additional athletic exposure can only help Mexico. "I've also created a lot of publicity in European countries for Mexico," he says. "When people are sitting in their houses in Sweden, thinking how cold it is, they think, 'Wow, this guy is from Mexico. Maybe I should go to Cancun or Acapulco to visit it.' I've done a lot for the country too. It's give and take...
...septuagenarian Clark, who has suddenly become one of the most influential men in Africa, is another factor. Nigerian leaders often come with a powerful mentor working behind the scenes; a backer whose office is the only way to get to the big guy. On Feb. 11, two days after his protégé took office, a mass of Nigeria's rich, powerful and wannabes - parliamentarians, former ministers, ex-governors, a former police chief and even the head of a state-owned television station - crowded into the expansive living room of Clark's Abuja mansion. Clark sensed his growing power...