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...Pete Docter's sketch, made back in '04, suggested another droll innovation at Pixar, a studio proud of taking risks in a traditional genre; mean and old are words rarely attached to the main character in an animated feature. But Docter, 40, who'd done the 2001 Monsters, Inc., and his co-director and co-writer Bob Peterson didn't want just to have fun with the elderly gent. They would send him and the audience on a journey in two new directions: penetratingly inward and exaltedly...
...Nagai, the nonprofessional kid chosen for Russell, needed a bit of coaching. Since Docter had chosen as his co-star in Monsters, Inc. Mary Gibbs, who was all of 2½ at the time, he's a past master at working with kids. "When Jordan had to be excited," Docter says, "he would get maybe 50%. So I'd tell him, 'Run around the room, run back here and say the line - ready, set, go!' We'd do it one line at a time like that." For a scene in which Russell is cradled and tickled by a giant South...
...secret that luxury has taken a beating in the Great Recession. High-end restaurants are hurting as people trade the $30 Steak for the $3 Big Mac. Saks Inc. lost $5.1 million in the first quarter of '09, a 129% drop from the previous year. Necessity is the new luxury...
...third of those savings could be achieved by targeting Miami and other warped medical markets like it. Miami's inordinate health-care outlay - 20% more than the national average - "is not a pretty picture," says Kate Fitch, a principal and health-care consultant for the Seattle-based Milliman Inc. consulting firm and a co-author of its Index. That's especially true since Miami-Dade County also has one of the country's lowest median incomes ($43,495). "If the [Miami] area's practice patterns continue as they are," says Fitch, "employees there could be approaching a breaking point...
...Barnes & Noble Inc., which manages the Coop bookstore, sent a cease and desist letter to BrunoBooks.com CEO Jesse Maddox, threatening legal action unless the Web site stopped taking textbook information from the Coop’s site...