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...down by other studios. Attending parties and schmoozing with Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein lays in place a rapport that might one day be turned to advantage. For Miramax the transaction is equally simple. Spacey and others like him attract the hip-erati. Put another way, Spacey is a chic magnet...
...smooth tongue can take a man much farther than a pretty-boy face. Fai knows it and, apparently, works it. According to his friend Luca, "He has an intuition to know when a girl wants to be approached." If that doesn't make him enough of a babe magnet, Fai has the hippest job around. He's a graphic designer, and already, at the tender age of 23, he has designed album covers for the knight and lady of the Canto-pop world, Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong...
Crowe is a fascinating character. Not exactly a box-office magnet (Gladiator is his only hit), he has movie-star swagger to go with his outsize movie-actor talent. He burrows into roles as different as the paunchy tobacco scientist in The Insider and the hostage rescuer in Proof of Life. He gives intelligent, sexy performances. The question is whether his gifts can overcome his rep as a hard-case?a rude womanizer and, by all accounts, a balky guy on a movie...
...also helped attract hundreds of billions of overseas dollars into the country, noted Kenneth Courtis, a Tokyo-based vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia. And the spigot may still be turned on. "I don't think that all of a sudden the factors that made the U.S. a huge magnet for investment have disappeared," said Courtis, who argued the dollar could prove stronger against the competing euro than most analysts expect. But Hormats was less sanguine about overseas investment, pointing out that "if the foreign capital decides it's not so willing to come in, then we have a currency...
Fineberg took over the office as momentum for change gathered and he has been extraordinarily effective as provost. Consequently, he has become--for some--a magnet for resentment over these issues...