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...sense of ease, and Will was such a fan of him - they were both really looking forward to working together. And I think you can sense the chemistry in the footage. Danny feels so regional and specific. He never feels pushed into a scene as if he's a Hollywood actor; most of the time he actually seems like a guy who somehow just wandered into the frame. But he's so confident that I think it actually put Will in this great position of being the straight man and setting Danny up. Will didn't have to score every...
...elaborate themes, from drug-smuggling to Cold War spying and even space travel; Tintin reached the moon 15 years before Neil Armstrong. Since Hergé first drew his quiffed hero, about 230 million Tintin comic books have sold around the world, translated into more than 80 languages. And now Hollywood has got its hands on him, with Steven Spielberg producing a Tintin movie trilogy in 3D. (See a TIME video about...
...announced new shows about the little guy struggling and the big guy brought low. On ABC's Hank, a CEO gets downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual small business each week will vote on which one of them should be laid...
...Terminator Salvation. But he wasn't the lead in last year's top-grossing film, The Dark Knight, either. That's Pixar for you. Unlike its rival, DreamWorks, the studio doesn't sell its movies with star voices. And the films' plots? At a typical Hollywood pitch meeting, the story of a rat let loose in a French restaurant (Ratatouille, 2007) or a lonely robot trash collector (last year's WALL-E) or, this time, a cranky old guy who won't leave his house would be greeted by stony silence. Even the crickets would walk out. Somehow, though, people...
...innovation - especially "disruptive" innovation, Big Ideas that change the whole game (for instance, the Internet). Yet most ideas start out "fuzzy, weak and partially baked," says Gerald Sindell, and then they fizzle out altogether. Sindell would like to fix that. A successful book-publishing executive and former award-winning Hollywood film director, he founded a consulting firm called Thought Leaders International that purports to teach clients like Yahoo! and Accenture how to turn sketchy concepts - the proverbial scribble on the back of an envelope - into blockbuster products and services. Now he has written a nifty little book - only 134 pages...