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Northrop Corp., the Los Angeles weapons maker, won the battle for Long Island, New York, military contractor Grumman. Competing with Martin Marietta for the prize, Northrop agreed to pay $62 a share, or about $2.1 billion, for Grumman -- close to $170 million more than Martin Marietta, Grumman's original choice for a partner, was willing to fork over. Grumman had sought a merger to help ensure longevity in the shrinking military industry. Grumman agreed to pay Martin Marietta $50 million to forget their deal. And what will the employees of Grumman get? Most likely, layoffs...
...prize-winning play, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches tells the modern story of death as result of AIDS. Kushner shows his character in their turmoils, their laughs and their delusions. Unlike Kushner's well-paced play, which balance the melancholia, depression and heartache surrounding this deadly disease, French film maker Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights" (or "Les Nuits Fauves") approaches the subject of AIDS in a much more dramatic, passionate, insane way, one which, ultimately, is unable to remain comprehensible...
...film is based on Collard's novel of the same title and tells the story of Jean (played by Collard), a film maker and musician who lives a seedy bisexual life in the subculture of Paris. He meets, falls in love and has great, mind-numbing sex with Laura, played by Romaine Bohringer, an 18-year old whose maturity seems far beyond her years...
Essentially, this movie deals with choices and the inability of the protagonist to make any. He cannot choose between whether he wants to be a film maker or a musician he cannot decide if he wants men, women or even which ones from each of these. Responsibility, trust and some form of commitment are essential elements in any sort of relationship, but Jean is incapable of exercising any of these character traits. His overarching sense of denial seems to pervade all of his actions. And the inconsistency of the film's basic structure-its exaggeration, melodrama and useless subplots-reflects...
...kitchens. We did not ask for the absurd hypocrisy of having an oven and range, but not being allowed to have a coffee maker. We would gladly give up our kitchens to live peacefully in the Yard...