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Kudrow has a different take. "Reality," she says, "is humiliation TV." Humiliation--how much of it a person will take for fame--is the point of The Comeback. Kudrow invented a similar character years ago, when she was in the Groundlings improv group. After Friends, she called Michael Patrick King, recently executive producer of Sex and the City. They decided to put Valerie in the two worlds most treacherous for a 40-year-old actress: reality and sitcoms. "The sitcom world is male-dominated," says King, "and sometimes the target is women...
...Eliot: Timur Akazhanov, Deema B. Arafah, Sarah L. Bishop, Bryan D. Choi, Patrick S. Dinneen, Fuad Faridi, Anna E. Harkey, Zhe Lu, Kimberley S. Mak, Arik Motskin, Joseph R. Oliveri, Katherine E. Talcott
...PATRICK COYNE...
...strategy to improve on its performance in 2004, a rough year in which European ice cream sales fell nearly 10% and Unilever's overall pretax profits fell 36%. Unilever has since streamlined its corporate structure, jettisoning its dual-chairman arrangement for a single chairman and chief executive. Since Patrick Cescau took charge in February, he has focused on reviving sales growth with new products. One innovative Unilever idea: "Superfruit" flavors featuring fruits high in vitamins and minerals, like the acerola, which looks like a cherry and tastes like an apple--but with much more vitamin C. "It's not about...
...might be looking for the kind of films he makes: big, bustling, manic movies about displaced persons. Two films fitting that description are Marco Tullio Giordano's illegal-immigrant drama Once You're Born and the nutsy-sexy Mexican Battle in Heaven. A third, as Cannes' official announcer Patrick Fabre told me at a swank party where we sat at the same table with Toni Morrison and Morgan Freeman (have I broken the record for name-dropping in a subordinate clause?), is the quasi-Kurdish war epic Kilometre Zero. That movie has an image that is pure Kusturica...