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...through Feb. 21, is always the celebrities who've jetted into the frosty German capital for the festivities. Leonardo diCaprio, the star of Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller, Shutter Island, was the talk of town after being spotted at the Grill Royal, one of Berlin's top restaurants. Ewan McGregor hit the red carpet to plug his new film, The Ghost Writer, and Renée Zellweger is sitting on the festival jury. Director Roman Polanski was conspicuous by his absence. (He's still under house arrest in Switzerland on rape charges related to his sexual encounter with...
...best at stranding the Ghost in wide frame, on a turbulent island, and tightening the noose around his neck as he gets closer to an awful truth. Alexandre Desplat's violins saw away, in approved Bernard Herrmann fashion, as appliers and absorbers of dramatic shocks; and McGregor brings all his charm and intelligence to the vague figure of a Hitchcock hero who slips into circumstance and chicanery until he morphs into a Polanski victim. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...McGregor, a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, is a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China...
...military's secret "remote viewing" missions, which trained men to concentrate so hard, they could run through walls. Lyn Cassady (Clooney) is trying to harness his super power for the allied effort in the early days of the Iraq invasion. His student and foil is Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), a naive journalist in search of a scoop...
...intellectual-property rights, arguing that it's one way to narrow a trade gap that reached $268 billion last year. While the U.S. is unlikely to make any progress on pushing China to allow its currency to appreciate, it could make a stronger case on preventing piracy, says James McGregor, the former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. As China tries to move beyond cheap manufacturing, its companies will begin to suffer more from poor protection of intellectual property. Piracy "is still a horrendous problem here and it's alarming for the business community," he says...