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...cards used in digital cameras and the tiny drives in Apple's iPod--there is no need to diversify. Everyone seems happy with their compensation. Why bother to grow? CBL's CEO, Bill Margeson, currently expanding into Europe and Australia, says Gaidano and his troops are beholden to the Hollywood crowd and "haven't taken the initiative to go to new markets." But there are plenty of reasons for the Novato company to be happy in its anonymous home by the marsh--draining ice water out of drives, talking data losers down from their ledges and rescuing other people...
...Outside Hollywood, wheel-related crimes include rim jacking and, on occasion, even homicide. This spring a college student was fatally shot in Sacramento when he tried to steal one of Dayton's gold-plated low-rider wheels from a machine shop. A police officer in Florida's Broward County was killed in April when he interrupted two men pinching designer rims off a new Cadillac Escalade. Five of these luxury SUVs were stolen in March from a dealer's lot in Laguna Niguel, Calif.; four were found the next day missing only their wheels and tires. The thieves had cherry...
...SIGNED. STEPHEN CHOW, 40, Hong Kong's king of comedy; a deal with Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures to co-produce a movie set in China; in Los Angeles. Tentatively titled Kung Fu Hustle, the film is scripted by Chow, who will also play the lead and direct. Chow's 2001 Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong's biggest box-office hit ever, is scheduled to be released in the U.S. in August by Miramax...
...Jonze film, Adaptation, Nicolas Cage plays a writer who is all too aware of this. In trying to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchard Thief into a screenplay, Cage desperately wishes to remain true to the original text rather than stuff the work into a typical Hollywood cliché-fest. When he meets a producer with other ideas, Cage complains that he doesn’t want to “cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcom[ing] obstacles...
...Hollywood, they say that movies are diversions from life's anxiety, rancor and tragedy. In the rest of the world, films are often a reflection of those troubles, a mirror into the dark soul of humanity. So each May, 35,000 movie folk convene in a Riviera paradise, where they place a stethoscope to mankind's heart and announce, this guy is sick...