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...part of its acquisition of IBM's PC-manufacturing business. When the deal is complete, Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe, where Acer notebook PCs became the No. 1 best seller last year...
...been 25 years since Martin Scorsese unleashed his third classic, coming only two years after Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull...
...former teacher and current colleague, Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss, glowingly describes her as one who can “bring together her abilities as an image-maker with her interest in the social world” in a way that is “nuanced, complex, and emotive.” Yet she is refreshingly down-to-earth, and, as one of her VES 150 students puts it, “practical, taking into consideration our situation as undergrads...
...could go shrill in odd moments, Carole Lombard was perfect casting for this 1934 romp, directed by Howard Hawks, about a Broadway director (John Barrymore in all his spuming comic majesty) and the actress who was his protege and is now his career lifeline. The film was a career maker for Lombard, who died in a plane crash...
...plan to do so soon, leaving questions about M.M.C.'s survival. Japanese sales dropped 40% in 2004, with $2.2 billion in losses in the first nine months of this fiscal year. Into this mess steps Nishioka, also chairman of M.M.C.'s onetime parent (and still major shareholder), industrial-equipment maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He has orchestrated a $5.2 billion cash infusion and announced a restructuring and cost-cutting plan. A similar $4.7 billion bailout last year was billed as M.M.C.'s "last chance." If Nishioka can't engineer a dramatic turnaround, this may be the last "last chance...