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...starting salary--plus a signing bonus and stock options--to join a Microsoft team that will develop new software from the ground up. Antitrust troubles or not, Microsoft is still a cool company, and it wooed Murarka and other hotshot prospects with an all-expenses-paid visit to Hollywood, capped off by tickets to the Grammy Awards. "We had a blast," says Murarka. "Everyone who went to the show ended up joining Microsoft...
...each film is the chase--the simplest story line requiring the most sophisticated art craft. But instead of asking Jerry Bruckheimer for some car-crash outtakes, Fincher lured a U.N. of directorial talent: Hollywood's John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), Taiwan's Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Britain's Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros). Frankenheimer's short, Ambush, premiered last week on bmwfilms.com The next two, Lee's and Wong's, will appear...
Schickel's review was symptomatic of how easy it is to be seduced by the false hype of Hollywood marketing. As Schickel noted, the movie is bloody, but that is about it. It presents a pathetic image of social scum. Why not promote other, better Mexican films such as Herod's Law, Two Crimes and even Recipes to Stay Together? JAIME LAGUNEZ OTERO Mexico City...
Summer may be weeks away, but Hollywood is already working overtime to make sure you spend it indoors. In an attempt to get Web surfers salivating over summer's big-budget wannabe blockbusters, studios are pulling out all the stops to give you something to do online when the boss isn't looking. You can spend hours jousting with geeks as hopeless as you are, brush up on your history while you blow things up, and pour your heart out to a robot--with no price of admission...
...gets more people talking than any network show out there. ("Back From the Outback," a where-are-they-now cleanup show charged with sopping up the last of CBS' May-sweeps spoils next week, may finally yield to the aging Peacock gang.) Here's management's leverage in the Hollywood strike talks: For the second year in a row, actor- and writer-free Reality TV was the headliner of the boob-tube season...