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...Feng, maker of smash hits Be There or Be Square and Sorry Baby, is China's most commercial filmmaker. Although Big Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout...
...advantages Dell enjoys over giants such as IBM could prove decisive against Legend as well. Founded in 1984 by 11 computer researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Legend has rapidly grown into Asia's largest PC maker by riding a boom in mainland computer sales. Although it manufactures in China, where labor costs are cheap, it lacks Dell's economies of scale. Legend's revenue last year was $3.5 billion, puny compared with Dell's $31.9 billion. Dell's 17.6% profit margin similarly dwarfs Legend...
...year-old record label whose name is synonymous with enka (Japanese folk ballads). Then Ripplewood bought out Seagaia, a sprawling golf-and-beach resort on the southern island of Kyushu that plays host to Japan's best-known golf tournament. Ripplewood also purchased Niles Parts, an auto-parts maker...
...Columbia, Ripplewood's task was less to redefine the business than to get back to it. Over the years the company had simply stopped producing hits, relying for sales revenue on the albums of enka queen Hibari Misora?who died in 1989. Nippon Columbia owned Denon, an audio-equipment maker, and odd assets such as real estate and golf memberships. The staff was bloated, the headquarters stuffy, and the company had not turned a profit in 10 years...
...would make the outlook for Korea that much brighter. Korea's big electronics exporters will benefit when Americans start buying more cell phones, stereos and fridges, particularly Samsung Electronics whose nifty DVD players are already a must-have item for U.S. consumers. As the world's biggest semiconductor maker, the company would also get a boost from a pickup in the U.S. high-tech sector. Other beneficiaries: the myriad suppliers to Korea's shipbuilders, carmakers and other chaebol exporters. Korea's dependence on the U.S. market has lessened, but it is still a big part of the picture...