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...style and substance, full of beguiling camera and editing tricks as Welles traces the rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into...
...share price after the company said same-store sales would increase just 2% or 3%, compared with a 13.8% sales increase in last year's first half. The stock recently regained some ground, to around $24 a share. "We overestimated," says Clark, explaining that last year's muscular performance was unsustainable. Clark thinks earnings could still rise 26% to 32% in 2005--great for most companies but ordinary compared with last year's 163% jump...
...been here more than a few times before: Golden Boy, Humoresque, James Toback's Fingers--of which the awkwardly titled The Beat That My Heart Skipped is an acknowledged remake. Not to mention the upcoming Hustle & Flow. You know the drill: chap earns his living in a low, muscular occupation but secretly yearns for a career as a musician...
Jake Steinfeld was perhaps the first to make a public reputation with a best-selling 1984 book and videocassette (Body by Jake). But many in lo-fat, hi-fad Southern California now swear by Isaacson. A muscular, 5 ft. 7 in. 155 pounder who bears a remarkable resemblance to Bruce Jenner, Isaacson, 36, has perfected the art of dealing with the nonsense and the no-nonsense attitudes of stars. He cajoles, he flatters, but he produces. "Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line...
...Riddle), were cowed with tough-guy analogies: a director must be a field marshal, a quarterback, a boardroom Svengali. "This producer asked me, 'But can you be the captain of a ship?' I was taken aback at the Captain Ahab image of dealing with sailors in a muscular world. Everyone can be a different kind of captain on a different kind of ship and bring in different kinds of results. You do have to be a damned good sailor, though...