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Glitz is a Vikram Chatwal hallmark. When the 35-year-old scion of Indian-American hotel-and-restaurant tycoon Sant Chatwal got married in February to Bombay socialite Priya Sachdev, the wedding was spread over 10 unrestrained parties in three Indian cities for a full week, and drew celebrities like Bill Clinton (Sant is a serious donor to the U.S. Democratic Party) and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. The style of Vikram's personal hotel group, called Hautel Couture, is just as extravagant as its owner...
...payoff at the end feel closer to shtick than art. FoxFaith's first theatrical release, Love's Abiding Joy, a western based on a novel by the Christian writer Janette Oke, made only about $250,000 on 200 screens this fall, perhaps because it was a little like a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie--without the edge. "I'm not sure people want to pay $10 on a Friday night to be preached to," says Reuben Cannon, who produced Woman, Thou Art Loosed and Perry's films...
...Sour Patch Kids. It was not only Harvard students, however, that found room in their big brains to appreciate the amusing moments that made up the half hour episode of Ivory Tower. Nick A. Athanassiou, a graduate student at Boston College, follows Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s hallmark program religiously. “I am a huge fan,” he said. “I watch it on YouTube.” Stereotypical Harvard types—including a guy with his glasses taped together Harry-Potter style and a man who read Plato?...
...critical upper-house elections. Many analysts are doubtful, not least because Abe has yet to set out his domestic agenda. His maiden Diet speech contained a lot of rhetoric about the need to make Japan a "beautiful country" without mentioning specific, results-oriented policy initiatives that were a hallmark of Koizumi's administration. "He talks about economic revitalization and closing the gap between urban and rural regions, but he insists on cutting public spending," says Nihon University's Iwai. "There are certain inherent contradictions in what he says, and he hasn't addressed them." Adds Etsushi Tanifuji, director...
...plus Phaeton sedan, which flopped. The company has slashed sticker prices on the Jetta (lowered $1,400, to $16,500) and Rabbit ($1,000, to $15,000), hoping to recover profits with higher volume. And future models won't contain as many standard features, according to Hallmark. The idea is to produce cars that can compete more effectively in the midmarket. Designing cars for the local competitive landscape is precisely what the Japanese have done for decades, of course. But, Hallmark says, "it's a huge change in perspective" at VW headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany...