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...soon-to-be-started script—for which Universal bought the pitch without ever seeing a word in print—is about a group of middle-aged friends on the European backpacking trip they never took after college, Carell wants to convince his fellow members of the Frat Pack to co-star. He lists Vince Vaughn, Luke and Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrell among his targets for some of the roles, mentioning that “it would be great to work with those guys again...
...third, educated and with good work experience, will always be okay. The AES is here for that middle third. We want to build a big middle class and to stretch a community as far as it can go." Or, as he tells employers in his most provocative pitch: "Why not employ a middle-class black instead of white trash...
...Dubbo office, Estens is speaking to four men from the local council about a proposal to increase night-time security around a troubled housing estate and areas vulnerable to vandalism during school holidays. The Estens road train starts its engine; the AES chairman settles into his pitch, which always comes with dramatic hand gestures. "It's about stretching communities." "We want people to lift themselves up." "Those on welfare are a pull-down on others." "I'm interested in that middle third." If the money can be found, Estens would like to employ a manager for the security service...
SOAP SEASON 4 Long before Desperate Housewives, ABC took soap-opera conventions over the top. Racy for its time (for ours, even) the 1977-81 series features pitch-perfect work from Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Robert Guillaume, who reprised his sarcastic- butler role on Benson. The outrageous final season offers story lines involving a Latin American revolutionary, a possibly alien baby and a kung-fu fortress. Meanwhile, Billy Crystal, as one of TV's first gay characters, begins channeling the spirit of a 90-year-old Jewish man--which, come to think of it, he's been doing ever...
...year-old junior executive at Wipro Technologies, an Indian tech-services company, when, in 2001, the marketing director suddenly left. So she marched into the CEO's office and asked for the job. "I was a nobody," says Sangita Singh. Rebuffed, she returned 10 days later with a detailed pitch and got the job. Last month Wipro put her in charge of its Enterprise Application Services business, a key post as the company competes with IBM and Accenture for higher-value consulting work. With margins shrinking in IT outsourcing, this shift is critical. Singh must convince clients, 60% of them...