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...while Stewart plans to appeal her conviction and remains free on bail until the appeal is exhausted, the likelihood that she will play only a peripheral role in the company means that it must now figure out how to move forward without its most important product. Stewart owns about 61% of the company's stock, and its business is indelibly marked with her name. While brand experts have criticized the new CEO, Sharon Patrick, for moving too slowly to separate the company from the convicted felon, the seeds of that transformation are already in place...
...finger--"My beer-opening finger," he complains during one imaginary visit with Tommy--and since then Tommy has been unable to go into a fire without taking a hit off a flask. (Tommy's alcoholism, curiously, did not dissuade Miller beer from a sponsorship deal that includes product placements and paying for the debut episode to air commercial free.) His marriage has fallen apart, and his wife is dating. Unwilling to let her go, he gathers his three kids around the kitchen table, breaks out a roll of bills and announces "a little game" wherein they can win cash...
...easier than ever to unload that old camera on eBay. Sellers can drop off an item at any of UPS's 3,400 stores in the continental U.S., and it is shipped to the California-based AuctionDrop. As long as the product weighs less than 25 lbs. and has an eBay value of at least $75, the middleman will handle everything from pricing to shipping. AuctionDrop's commission is up to 38%, which may sound steep, but the deal's still more profitable than collecting dust...
...Chicago in 2035, the movie has a sensible, couple-of-years-hence look. Americans of the next '30s, the movie tells us, will still wear vintage sneakers (Converse 2004), drink Ovaltine and get home deliveries from FedEx. (We know this thanks to some of the most obtrusive product placement since Cast Away.) And morose gumshoes will obsessively patrol the streets for sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot--"suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950--is another gloss on Blade Runner...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...