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...Association's President, Joey Berlin, has authored no criticism that I could find on line. His one published comment was a letter to the Los Angeles Times defending the sanctity of the press junket, in which the studios pay for reporters to come to Hollywood, pick up some swag and spend a few minutes chatting up stars and directors. Berlin extolled "the hard-working journalists who spend up to 40 or more weekends a year on the 'junket circuit,' gathering whatever juicy morsels they can to satisfy the insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood." And then they get to give...
Santander's Other Secret The Abbey turnaround came straight from the Santander playbook - and highlights the second key to the company's incredible success: software. First step, in goes Santander's proprietary Parthenon software, which organizes a bank's business by customer instead of by product line, as had been the case at Abbey. "This is the kind of sophisticated information JPMorgan still didn't have, and I saw it at a Santander branch in Chile," says Davide Serra, head of the U.K.'s Algebris hedge fund. The system facilitates cross-selling to existing customers while allowing Santander...
...Anybody who has ever powered up a Nintendo knows the addictive pull to finish another scene or gain one more level. "Engagement, reward, leveling up - those are powerful tools," says Alan Gershenfeld, former vice president at the game firm Activision and now president of E-Line Media, a New York City-based developer of social games. "Game designers have it honed to a whole new level...
...Bottom line: the Nook is a nicer package than the Kindle. But the real question is, Will either of them survive the arrival of Apple's tablet computer, which is expected in late January? We used to think the only way to read e-books was on drab-looking E Ink displays, but Apple's ultra-sharp iPhone screens have proved otherwise. As nice as the Nook is, like the Kindle, it will probably be obsolete long before paper books...
...director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty. I don't really think of that as an acting career but more my father pushing me never to become an actor...