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...Google?s products-cool as they are-and Sun?s technology together are not a Microsoft killer. ?It?s the germ of the idea, but I can?t imagine that Google would go to battle with Microsoft with the current products,? says John R. Rymer, a vice president at Forrester Research. ?But I could imagine that they would put engineering investment into open office and try to create something eventually.? The market, so far, has been lukewarm to the deal. Google?s (GOOG) stock initially fell but is now back up $2.02 to $312.73 per share. Sun (SUNW), which originally...
...tall order, even for Schmidt. At Novell he learned first hand just how tough it can be to fend off Microsoft; Novell continues to roll along selling its network products. But that defeat spurred him on to golden success at Google. ?Schmidt knows the danger and the risks,? says Rymer. ?You can learn from your experiences, and he?s been effective at Google...
Unlike the Britney and Mandy movies, Aaliyah's fits into the prevailing guy mode: a threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than...
...statue form. The makeup artists spent three hours painting her with alabaster to gave her the appearance of something made of stone. The cast and crew gasped when Aaliyah came onto the set, looking like some mythic creature. Even her eyes were covered with alabaster contacts (which, according to Rymer had been extremely painful to wear). Without a word, as silent as the statue she was playing, Aaliyah took her place on the set. Later, with the addition of special effects, her stone body would seem to crumble into the dust. The last scene Aaliyah shot for "The Queen...
...Says Rymer: "She does have a death scene. It's very beautiful. It is sort of eerie to watch now. There is certainly a poignancy about it that was added to it by the events of real life...