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...LAST SUPPER TO EAT, BY YOURSELF, WHERE WOULD IT BE AND WHAT WOULD YOU EAT? Fresh Burrata [cheese] with roasted peppers eaten on the navel of Scarlett Johansson. The peppers have to be marinated, though. Otherwise, I'd eat somewhere else...
...Hollywood's hunk du jour. The Tudors, the most expensive Showtime series ever, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a svelte and sporty King, starts April 1. A film adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2002 best-selling historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Scarlett Johansson as her sister Mary and Munich's Eric Bana as another hubba-hubba Henry, is due later this year...
Other Tudor-era folk are getting their moment in the sun too. In this fall's The Golden Age, Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the steely Queen from 1998's Elizabeth. The very busy Johansson is scheduled to start filming a biopic of Mary Queen of Scots this summer. Even Sting is getting in on the Tudor buzz, popping up on chat shows with a lute to promote Songs from the Labyrinth, a CD of tunes by 16th century composer John Dowland. And fat Henry hasn't been left out. A just-closed exhibit of work by the King...
...Popwire, which launched the first TV broadcast over a 3G network with Ericsson in 2000, Johansson helped develop an end-to-end media-streaming infrastructure. More recently, he has watched European carriers give up trying to create mobile-TV services in-house and start looking for outside vendors to handle them, which is MobiTV's opportunity. It's a classic make-or-buy situation; Johansson is in the middle of it. Says he: "They are the brand name. We are the one to run this service and develop the technology...
...wanted to be an exobiologist or a physicist, Johansson has found his dream job developing technologies and solutions unheard of five years ago. He says TV on mobiles requires a new paradigm: "It's a new way of consuming contents. I don't see any limits to what...