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...Pascal, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment to green-light the film, but he also persuaded her to allow him to use her as a character in the movie. "Nothing Spike does is a parody," she says. "It's always real, and he always celebrates humanity." Robert McKee, the screenwriting teacher whose classes are mocked in the movie, gave Jonze permission to use his name...
...McKee ran a stellar race, setting a person best time of 18 minutes 55 seconds. Celene Menschel, making her cross-country debut, finished as the second runner for Harvard and 92nd overall...
...same old Forsyte--not exactly. It's been pared to eight episodes (Sundays, check local listings), with a faster pace and a foreshortened story. Soames Forsyte (Damian Lewis), the scion of a wealthy, stodgy London family, is ready to settle down. He meets the near penniless Irene (Gina McKee), his temperamental opposite: she loves art, he's a philistine; she is drawn to ideas, he to money. Naturally, she marries him. Soon she's making eyes at Philip Bosinney (Ioan Gruffudd), the brilliant, artistic architect whom Soames hires to build a country house. Their affair sends Soames into an obsessive...
Judged on its own merits, not as a justification for public TV, the new Forsyte is a success. Lewis makes Soames understandable, even pitiable, resisting the urge to Snidely-Whiplash it up. And McKee is captivating as the story's enigmatic touchstone, whom every Forsyte irrationally and immediately loves or despises (or both). The production is lush, racy and frank: we don't just hear that Irene "[takes] steps to prevent" having a child with Soames; we see that--in the contraceptive manner of the time--she douches after sex. But the themes (love vs. money, bohemians...
...boss's job; if he or she fails to do that, the bottom line, and not just morale, will suffer. Just as Goleman's first book redefined intelligence--showing that EQ matters as much as IQ--his new treatise, co-written with fellow academics Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, reassesses what makes a great leader...