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...production house behind 007, has been a family business since Albert (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who produced the first nine films together, set it up in 1961. Today a second generation of Broccolis--Cubby's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael Wilson--runs the London-based outfit. They zealously protect the Bond tradition, but they've also brought the once fading franchise forward. "They've re-examined the character and focused on who Bond is--not just what his world is like," says John Cork, co-author of James Bond: The Legacy...
...It’s either Margot Tenenbaum or the Ben Stiller character who wears a track outfit,” says Lewis, who notes that cross-dressing is also in style this year...
...going to go under and Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs estimates that if all 51 companies on the list were to close, Japan's unemployment rate would jump from 5.4% to 6.1%. And that tally doesn't include thousands of small and medium-sized businesses...
...wild streak can be an advantage in Byng's line of work. At least five major London houses turned Pi down, and although Faber and Faber had made an offer equal to Canongate's, Martel says that it was Byng's personality that made him sign with the Edinburgh outfit. "He's a nonstop genius, with this unbelievable level of energy," Martel says. "I would have gone with him even if they had offered less. They did really well by me." Doing really well by authors is Byng's strategy for the future. He says, despite persistent rumors that...
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