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...film in late 2006, and it was the third time that I auditioned when I finally met the director. There would be these big, six-month gaps when I did nothing. So it was a lot like all these other British independent films, where you get the job and then it falls apart. For a long while I didn't put much into the idea of it all actually happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Best Actress Nominee Carey Mulligan | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...made little speeches. I was a little drunk and did the whole thing, saying "I love you guys." And then the next day I got on a plane and went to Chicago and was on the set of Public Enemies and dyed my hair white for the job. (See the top 10 movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Best Actress Nominee Carey Mulligan | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...comes from a long career working his way up through the London music scene. After leaving school at the age of 18, he started as a runner at a talent-scout company called MPC and says he was so junior he was "getting the secretaries sandwiches." Desperate for a job in music, he started cold-calling record-label bosses in the Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting for new songwriters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Universal Music's New Boss Keep the Hits Coming? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...which can put a dollar figure on the pain and suffering caused by foodborne illness, may help prompt change. Late last year, the Committee on Health, Education Labor and Pensions unanimously approved the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which is currently in front of the Senate. "It's our job to go to war against foodborne illness," says DeLauro. "We can't afford to wait." At $152 billion a year, the meter is running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Price Tag on Food Unsafety | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...wanted to go to Yale prior to the video release wouldn’t stop bursting into song all throughout J-Term, but it didn’t seem to incite the same level of enthusiasm in others.  Harvard’s video does a better job of portraying what Harvard in particular is about than Yale’s does for Yale because it features very personalized stories of Harvard, and Yale’s, though it is definitely more upbeat and catchy, is more general. This trend toward further personalizing admissions outreach efforts...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Harvard: Home or Hogwarts | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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