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...Anna was a beacon of hope,” said Jean Su, the younger of her two sisters. “She had an incredible faith in people, in dreams, in things working...
...parents moved the family to the United States. The family moved frequently, finally settling in Potomac, Md., according to Jean...
...gifted Hollywood figure. At 21 he produced a movie (Two Arabian Knights) that won an Oscar at the first Academy Awards ceremony. Before he was 25, he had directed and supervised the thrilling dogfights in the World War I fly-boy spectacle Hell's Angels, the flick that made Jean Harlow a star. Two years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom. By the mid-1950s...
...French. If you want to see how a culture is defined by its attitude toward the future, rent Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. Perhaps the worst sci-fi movie of all time, it was distinguished only by its outlandish costumes, designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. Give the French a chance to dream up the future, and the first thing they ask is, What will we wear? Americans, on the other hand, want to know what we will drive and how we will kill one another (ergo Star Wars). We learn this curiosity early. Every year at my elementary school...
...head of Vivendi Universal, Jean-Marie Messier was the flamboyant king of spin - and in the end he flamed out. Now Messier's successor, Jean-René Fourtou, has a new title: the king of spinning off. In the 14 months since Fourtou took over the debt-laden French conglomerate (it has more than 6,000 individual holdings), he has been breaking down the empire piece by piece. Out went the cluster of Internet ventures that never lived up to their hype, the book and magazine publishers for which Messier overpaid, and the water utility that was once the company...