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Rollerball, directed by John McTiernan of Die Hard fame, skates into theaters today. Starring Chris Klein (the American Pie movies), LL Cool J (Toys, Any Given Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich...
...times for Kirch and his eponymous media empire, which is carrying up to $5 billion in bank debt and faces at least $2.1 billion in additional financial obligations. Kirch?s investors and creditors are becoming twitchy, jockeying for position to salvage any slices from what may be a crumbling pie. Last week, Axel Springer, a German publishing concern, exercised a "put" option that required Kirch to purchase $662 million-worth of shares. Later this year, British TV station BSkyB, which has a $1.5 billion "put" option, may follow suit...
Things could get a lot worse for Kirch if Rupert Murdoch is thinking along the same lines. Rumors are constantly swirling that Murdoch may use Kirch?s current debt problems to make an opportunistic grab for a greater share of the pie. And he may also have the instrument with which to do it. In 1999, Murdoch?s BSkyB bought into KirchPayTV. But it, too, negotiated a "put" option - come October, BSkyB can elect to sell back its 22% stake in KirchPayTV to Kirch for an estimated $1.5 billion, above market value. Murdoch may demand that Kirch pays...
...Everybody said, ‘They are not stories and, whatever they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...
...Everybody said, ‘They are not stories and, whatever they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...