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...Caine took two years off to travel and relax, but he wasn't ready to sink into retirement. Jack Nicholson called with a co-starring role in the dark gangster film Blood and Wine, and Caine's golden years kicked in. He galloped from the sleazissimo agent in Little Voice to the kindly abortionist in Cider House, from the beauty-pageant Svengali in Miss Congeniality to a dead Cockney remembered by his friends in Last Orders--winners all. (He also survived Mike Myers' idolatry of Caine's swinging-spy phase in Austin Powers in Goldmember.) Then came Fowler...
...Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis are the two locks in the Best Actor category for their turns in About Schmidt and Gangs of New York, respectively; Chicago’s Richard Gere is also a solid bet for a nod. The final two slots will be split between four contenders: The Pianist’s Adrien Brody, Adaptation’s Nicolas Cage, The Quiet American’s Michael Caine and About a Boy’s Hugh Grant; the comparative prestige of Brody’s and Cage’s pictures give them the edge...
...Europe down 62% from 2000 and off 20% from 2001, according to Thomson Financial, bankers are elbowing for a place at the Safeway table. "There's a perception at many banks that if things don't pick up substantially there'll need to be more downsizing," says Geoffrey Nicholson, of Mercer Management Consulting. Merrill Lynch last week stepped down as Tesco's broker because it's advising Green. WestLB Panmure continues as Safeway's broker even though its lending division is working with Green, while Credit Suisse First Boston ditched a 10-year relationship with Safeway to advise KKR. That...
...BOTTOM LINE "In today's world only 13.9635% of actuaries are really like that! JEREMY GOFORD, president of Britain's Institute of Actuaries, protesting the depiction of math-obsessed actuaries in the Jack Nicholson film About Schmidt
...premise of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches (Random House; 178 pages) is so wondrously slight, it's hardly there at all. Emmett, 44, is an editor of medical textbooks who lives in an old farmhouse in the country with his wife and two children. Every morning at 4 or 5, Emmett goes downstairs, lights a fire and sits by it, "the sole node of wakefulness at the heart of the sleeping world." He thinks about small, inconsequential things: the furious way his pet duck pecks at a frozen log "as if she were Teletyping a wire service story...