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...business model behind the new 3-D push is simple enough: the movies cost only a little more to make than flat films, while the ticket price is about 25% higher in 3-D theaters. (I sprang $15 to see My Bloody Valentine in Manhattan.) As a rabid movie watcher, I'm not immune to the pleasures 3-D can bring to certain genres. It's an advance in visual appeal similar to, but not greater than, Blu-ray. Which is to say, a difference in degree, not in kind. And with Blu-ray, you don't need the damn...
...Chairman Richard Wagoner said in February that as part of the company's ongoing restructuring the automaker was withdrawing its support from Saturn at the end of 2011 model year. Vice Chairman Robert Lutz told reporters at the North American International Auto Show in January that GM had mounted an expensive overhaul of Saturn by adding a new sedan, a new crossover and a new hybrid. Saturn sales, however, have fallen by more than 40% during the first two months of 2009, and appear to have tumbled again during March. "Everyone is hurting, but Saturn is hurting more," says...
...Masters Golf Tournament next month, but it is spending an estimated $64 million on the NCAA Tournament, where a 30-second spot runs $1 million, according to Nielsen Media. The spots will promote many GM brands, including Pontiac, a nameplate that is slated to be downsized to just one model over the next few years...
Despite its current troubles, Juarez has a history of leading change in Mexico. The Mexican Revolution and maquiladora assembly plants began here; Juarez was the first city to elect an opposition mayor during the PRI's rule. Will it be the first to create a model police force? I think that is what's happening. We, of course, didn't choose these circumstances that are forcing...
...recurrent meme was that the President was risking "overexposure." As it is so often these days, his critics' model was WWFDRD? What would Franklin D. Roosevelt do? F.D.R. reassured and galvanized Americans during the Great Depression with his fireside chats on the radio, but he gave only about 30 in 12 years so that each one would be special...