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This year's Oscar story lines have already been etched in stone - Mickey Rourke as the comeback kid, Slumdog Millionaire as the art-house wunderkind, Milk as the timely social commentary (released three weeks after Proposition 8 passed in California). Yet while the critics have been fussing over wrestlers and Mumbai quiz shows, audiences have been flocking to Gran Torino - an Oscar outcast that's been doing laps around the competition at the box office. At some point this week, the Clint Eastwood drama will pass the $100 million mark, easily surpassing the box-office receipts brought...
...notes and includes oodles of inside jokes. The cell-phone ring is "You Are Everybody," by Charlie's rock band Drive Shaft. The office phone is answered with a Dharma Initiative-esque "Namaste!" And if we accept that fans can sometimes be the best critics, the skit takes the mickey out of two of the show's most overused transitions - the whooshing sound that indicates an imminent jump in time (either a flashback or a flash-forward) and the absurdly overused cliff-hanger cue. "If you say something cliff-hangery on the show, all the shrill, like crazy dramatic music...
...Crew's bottom line? Compared with most retailers, the company has stayed strong since the economic downturn began. "J. Crew continues to be one of the few retailers offering differentiated and unique merchandise to customers," analyst Christine Chen wrote this month in a report for Needham and Co. CEO Mickey Drexler, ex-chief of the Gap, has jump-started the brand by revamping the quality of its merchandise. But the economic downturn has not left J. Crew unscathed - profits fell 6% through the first three quarters of fiscal 2008. "It's a huge deal," says Marshal Cohen, retail analyst...
...catcher Mickey Kropf ’04-05 transferred to Vanderbilt, where he played for two seasons before returning to Cambridge. Both those transfers, however, occurred before the current moratorium took effect. —Jillian K. Kushner contributed to the reporting of this story...
DIED Although she didn't receive as much fan mail as the famed Annette Funicello, Cheryl Holdridge had an angelic and charismatic smile that made her one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the 1950s TV show The Mickey Mouse Club...