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...Sometimes an actor is naturally just strange enough, whether in looks or something deeper within, to carry off a role that would look like mannered showboating by anyone else. Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. have that talent, and so does Crispin Glover, although he doesn't seem capable of swinging into normalcy. It's too early to tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes...
Critics contend that without the pay czar's oversight, Citi will again award outsize pay packages to its top executives. In 2008, despite steep losses at the bank, Citi reportedly paid energy trader Andy Hall $100 million. Indeed, a number of top Citi officials already seem to be cashing in on the bank's loosened pay restrictions. Earlier in the week, Citi, which lost $1.6 billion in 2009, disclosed that it had paid John Havens, widely seen as the bank's No. 2 executive, nearly $10 million in compensation for his work last year. That topped even the salary...
...little disappointing in that [the film] made it seem that this fictitious company was not patient-focused and it took this moment [for employees at the company] to realize that lives were at stake,” Gorski says. “That’s something that’s on our mind every day through every trial that’s done here...
...What may seem like a rather isolated problem is really much more. Ever since the EU, with Germany at the helm, ushered in the Euro in 1999 (some say hastily), the fiscal collapse of any one eurozone country has had the potential to erase confidence in the common currency that underpins the economic structure of them all. A catastrophic loss of faith in the Euro, a currency second only to the United States Dollar in importance, would have grievous ramifications worldwide...
...often seem affected when people prominent in other fields decide to take up painting. But in the case of Japanese polymath "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, it's just one more expression of the 63-year-old's restless intelligence - alongside his work as a comedian, filmmaker, actor, TV presenter and poet...