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...Huck is played by Eric Bana, (Munich, Black Hawk Down) who is, I think, the most interesting young leading man around right now - capable of great intensity, shaded by elements of emotional confusion, without a lot of actorish egocentricity. He's one of those people who seems to totally live his roles and we like Huck despite the fact that he's drop-dead handsome, full of suppressed anger, self-destructive impulses and a tropism to very bad karma...
...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...
Kleinfeld and Hershman met in early December at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, where the consultant sized up the Siemens boss. At one point during dinner, Hershman leaned forward and said, "Don't hire me if you've got a problem, because I'm going to find it, and if I feel misled or hindered, I will leave, and that won't be good for your company." Stirring the ice in his Diet Coke, Kleinfeld coolly replied, "I have nothing to hide...
...ranks of Siemens' multicultural community were certainly rooting for Kleinfeld and a weakening of what remains of the German Old Boy network in Munich. With the executives of the Von Pierer era either retired or under investigation, Kleinfeld was supposed to have had a free hand to go about cleaning up the company from the inside and to take his restructuring drive to the next level. But the past had one blast left, and it got Kleinfeld...
Hershman, the ethics cop whom Kleinfeld hired, has been holding compliance training sessions with hundreds of executives. The week before Easter, he met the chief financial officers of divisions in a conference room at the busy Munich airport. Most of their questions were technical in nature, but some revealed how raw emotions are at the company. "How long will it take before everything is known?" asked one. "How long will it take before Siemens' reputation is restored?" asked another. During his wanderings, Hershman has been learning a lot about what went wrong at Siemens. The Munich meeting, for example...