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...among its fiercely competitive wholesale-energy traders a decade ago and has since expanded it to cover all the Houston-based company's 18,000 employees. In a typically intense session, as many as 25 managers may gather around a conference table in a windowless room with a computer screen filled with employee rankings projected on one wall. Each participant comes armed with notebooks bulging with job reviews. As the discussion proceeds, the managers may shift people from one ranking to another, deciding their fate with the click of a computer mouse...
...Confidential, Wonder Boys) has signed on to direct. "I saw here an opportunity to make a serious movie about the emotional struggles of contemporary adolescents in this country," says Hanson, who sees things in Slim Shady that others may not yet see. "Helping [Eminem] adapt his talents to the screen is one of the things about this project that excites me." Somewhere, the Insane Clown Posse asks...
Movies used to be edited by physically cutting and pasting together individual frames of film. Avid's Media Composer software, launched in 1989, offered a revolutionary alternative: film could be translated into digital information and edited on a computer screen. Media Composer, now in its 10th version, belongs to a host of Avid software that controls everything from sound to 3-D effects. But the company's original appeal is the same. Its programs incorporate elements like a rotating paddle--which mimics a device used in traditional film editing--and language such as "the bin," where scenes that have been...
...take part in a town-hall meeting about the border at 3:00 p.m. E.T. on Tuesday, June 5, go to Keyword: New Frontier, or send your questions to AOL screen-name AskFrontiers during the meeting
...Evelyn (Rachel Weisz, co-star of The Mummy and its sequel) is a graduate student in art at a small college in the American Midwest. She meets Adam (Paul Rudd, an appealing young stage and screen veteran who played in Bash), a younger student working as a guard at the local museum, where Evelyn is thinking about spray-painting a penis onto the fig leaf adorning an otherwise nude statue. This first scene poses the question: Does this pretty provocateuse dare cross the line that separates propriety from artistic daring...