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...Nissan, becoming chief executive of two car companies with headquarters on two continents. If anyone is up to the task it's he. A French citizen and engineer who speaks six languages, Ghosn is a legend in auto circles for transforming Nissan from clunker to race horse. Puncturing the myth that no foreigner could change Japan's clubby corporate culture, he laid off thousands, revitalized product design, streamlined Nissan's supplier network--and became a cult hero in the local press. Nissan's 11% operating margin is among the industry's highest. Sales are up 12.7% this fiscal year...
Because he tends to dress like a mortician and has made a fair number of films that romanticize gloom, Tim Burton has emerged as one of those directors who are not just makers of myths but subjects of them too. The most prevalent Burton myth is that he is dark and possibly a little disturbed. In addition to his clothes and movies, there are eerie bits of biography to support this view, like the fact that Burton's parents blacked out the windows of his childhood bedroom, apparently to save on heating bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif...
...culture, we have an almost religious belief against nonpermanence," says Carl Camden, president of Kelly Services, a leading global-staffing firm. But layoffs and forced early retirements are helping Americans see through "the myth of lifetime employment," he says. And like it or not, transiency has become a part of our culture, as Big Business continues to develop labor plans that include more and more temps. Over the past decade, the number of temporary or contract workers has doubled to about 2 million, and these temps are doing as much manufacturing as clerical work...
...Malcolm X reborn as a rapper. Since he predicted his own demise and since the movie of his life and death is called Tupac: Resurrection, we may as well surrender to hip-hop hype and say Tupac Shakur was the gangsta Jesus. True to his cult status, Shakur's myth blossomed after his death. So did his estate. It earned a lively $12 million last year. As with the deaths of so many celebs, his was a pity, an irony, a great career move...
...mind." As far as he's concerned, the two of them couldn't be more different. "It bugs me how in his movies everyone has to love each other, how the moral is always so clear," says Kon. Miyazaki assembles fairy tales from a grab bag of myth and sorcery; Kon's creativity is grounded in the concrete of urban Japan...