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...came Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), his computerized effects company, and THX, the advanced sound system for theaters, and a little studio, specializing in digital animation, that became Pixar. (Lucas sold that one to fellow visionary capitalist Steve Jobs.) The film?s triumph also allowed him to become his own mogul, essentially renting later episodes to 20th Century Fox, rather than working for hire. Most surprising, perhaps, was Lucas? fidelity to the fantasy world he?d dreamed up. He could have gone back, or on, to making the gnarly little independent movies he has talked about, to increasingly incredulous listeners...
...despite a range of accusations of illicit business dealings hanging over him. He has never received a final guilty verdict in Italy's three-stage appeal process, though several cases were eventually shelved because the statute of limitations had expired. This time, prosecutors accuse the 69-year-old media mogul of ordering the payment in 1997 of some $600,000 to British lawyer David Mills ? a onetime business associate of Berlusconi's who helped the magnate set up offshore accounts ? in exchange for Mills' false testimony in two trials against Berlusconi. Indictments are also being sought against Mills. Both...
...them against a hostile world. The drivers might as well be U.S. soldiers in a tank in Iraq. (In this sense, Crash is, implicitly, the most political film in contention.) And when they?re not driving, they?re reaming one another over real or imagined slights - shouting like a mogul at a gopher, and then (maybe) feeling a little remorse for lowering the level of civic dignity. The movie may seem nuts to outsiders, but to lots of Angelenos, it?s their prejudice and their conscience in a righteous scream fest. A parable that plays like reality...
...Your performance was terrible in that the show lacked mood, temperament and just about everything a show needs for success." DONALD TRUMP, American entrepreneur and reality-television star, responding to media mogul Martha Stewart's suggestion that her version of the corporate-reality show The Apprentice floundered because Trump would not reschedule his own Apprentice, which ran at the same time...
...SONDHI LIMTHONGKUL? When Thaksin's key opponent gets a call on his mobile phone there is no chirrup of birdsong or snatch of the William Tell Overture. Instead the phone emits a recording of his own voice shrieking, "Thaksin! Get Out!" Sondhi, 58, is a former media mogul who was hammered during the Asian financial crisis but managed to claw his way back into the black with help from a fellow magnate: ironically, Thaksin himself...