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...maux declared that Cannes 2004 would cast a wider net. In other words, more Hollywood glamour. More films with a perky pulse. And no Brown Bunny - the Vincent Gallo road movie that, from the moment of its screening last year, became the code phrase for pretentious junk. Sure enough, Cannes 2004 was brighter and more fun. The Hollywood stars came out in style, with Tom Hanks, Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Sean Penn and Julie Andrews gracing the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais. The film selection held some sweet surprises, such as Paolo Sorrentino...
Actually, the application of that term to junk e-mail has its roots in a 1970 Monty Python sketch about the food, at the conclusion of which members of the troupe sang the word “SPAM” with increasing intensity until it drowned out all other meaningful conversation in the room—the theory being that this is exactly what such messages are doing to the e-mail institution as a whole...
...while it’s easy to forget, junk e-mail is itself pretty old as well—it’s been around and stirring up controversy since long before Viagra. Indeed, the first e-mail chain letter was sent across the nascent Internet in 1982 right as current college seniors were being born. A good benchmark for the spread of spam is the size of various lists of potential targets offered for sale over the years—in 1995 lists of around 2 million e-mail addresses could be purchased, but this number skyrocketed...
...over as chief executive of Vivendi Universal on July 3, 2002, he says, he planned to carry out "a calm diagnosis" of the company's many problems. Instead, he was plunged into a maelstrom. Two days after his appointment, Moody's threatened to reduce Vivendi's credit rating to junk status and thus seriously imperil its finances. Fourtou's predecessor, the celebrity CEO Jean-Marie Messier, had leveraged Vivendi to the bursting point. His legacy included opaque accounts, a huge pile of debt--$34.5 billion, of which $5.5 billion had to be repaid within nine months--and no cash...
...when he was sporadically taking classes at Harvard and writing an astrology column for a Boston gay weekly under the name Madame Cheva. He does not deny that he can be "deliberately unusual." The spelling of his first name comes from an attempt to trace the origin of his junk mail. He is prone to disconcertingly lengthy pauses in the midst of even the simplest sentences. His tiny Manhattan apartment is crammed with more than 90 musical instruments, all of which he can play. He rarely socializes. "I'm not a party type," says Merritt. "I go to cafes...