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...earnings tide isn?t quite at full ebb yet, with a smattering of companies still waiting to tell Wall Street how bad things have been lately and how much better or worse they?re going to get. Among them: some telecom (Verizon), some energy (Williams, PG&E, Aon, Royal Dutch Petroleum), some grub (Tyson, Wendy?s, Del Monte Foods), some health care (Humana, Cardinal Health) and some tech (Scient, Applied Microsystems, Priceline.com). Thursday, the 23rd San Francisco Money Show opens by the Bay, and Logitech International - remember when everybody was doing this? - splits its stock...
Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
Dean Haspiel likewise lives in the city, and has written a smaller, and more directly autobiographical book, "Opposable Thumbs" (Alternative Comics; 48 pg.; $4.95). The book reads like a collection of his best personal anecdotes, rather than a longer piece of self-examination. But Haspiel wins us over with his willingness to admit to all the stupid, reckless, violent events of his life in New York...
...studio-movie goodies like a wrap party and jackets for the crew. "We joked that this was the most expensive independent movie ever made," says Bay, who threatened to quit several times over budget and ratings issues. (He wanted an R to depict the horrors of war; Disney wanted PG-13 to get more teens in the seats.) Still, he trimmed the price to $145 million on the orders of Joe Roth, who was then head of the studio. When Roth resigned, Disney chairman Michael Eisner demanded an additional $10 million cut. Bay walked. "I wasn't sure...
...year-old actress--and newcomer co-star Jay Hernandez. Their moving, brown-and-white romance (sex scenes have been trimmed but not omitted) could end up being a shrewd come-on for the target audience. Last spring teenagers turned out in force for Save the Last Dance, another PG-13 interracial love story from MTV Films and one of the few flicks to score with that demographic at the box office this year. "The young audience is much more color-blind than their parents," says MTV Productions president Van Toffler. "It's reflected in the television they watch...