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...Hollywood exclusively rule. Now comes her new movie Windstruck, which reunites her with Sassy writer and director Kwak Jae Young, and which is set to open on June 3 simultaneously in South Korea, China and Hong Kong?a first for a South Korean film. "Jun is just a phenomenon," says Bill Kong, the Hong Kong film mogul who backed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, and who is co-producing Windstruck...
...Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of buzzmachine.com, a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
...closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics, is an equally alluring marketing phenomenon: she has won ad and sponsorship deals with McDonald's and Budweiser-not, of course, that she'd be caught corrupting her slim physique with a diet of beer and Teriyaki McRib burgers. Rumors of a romance between Tian, 24, and Guo, 22-though it can never be officially confirmed or sanctioned-have only...
With more than 7.3 million copies in print and 59 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is much more than a mere publishing phenomenon. The controversial theories about Jesus' life woven into its plot have generated enough interest to spawn an information industry of sorts. Here's how some entrepreneurs are cashing in on the global Code craze...
...friends who are neophyte consultants, and more power to them—they’re good people and they’re going to be doing good things for the economy come September. But let’s keep the McKinsey thing a post-college phenomenon...