Word: sinfulness
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...doing well because people addicted to cigarettes smoke even during a recession. The company said it expects EPS growth of as much as 6% this year. Altria recently bought another tobacco company,UST and the company has set layoffs because of the acquisition. However, Wall St believes that "sin stocks" tend to dodge downturns well. In the last quarter, the company made $1.1 billion on $4.7 billion in sales. Altria has almost $8 billion in cash and a business which is, compared to most, smokin...
...Facile storytelling can be forgiven, though—or at least forgotten. The film’s cardinal sin is in squandering the opportunity to implement footage of the Hajj in an interesting way. It’s clear that any potentially substantive use for this exclusive footage was buried while convincing the Saudis to allow the filming of the pilgrimage at all (especially of the Kaaba, where non-Muslims are forbidden). The segments of this footage are left, mostly, until the end, when Ibn’s experience is compared with that of modern pilgrims, to show the striking...
...most of us armchair movie critics, predicting Oscar winners is a hobby. For Johnny Avello, it's part of his job. Avello, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, runs the only sports book in all of Sin City that sets odds on entertainment. TIME caught up with the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. native to get his picks on which movies will win the hardware Sunday night, and what goes into setting Oscar odds in general. (See TIME's Oscar guide...
...Other notables included John Krasinski’s (“The Office”) adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” entitled “Sin Nombre.” Krasinski directed and stars in the film, which follows an ex-gang member as he tries to escape Central America into the U.S. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
CORRECTION: The Feb. 6 article "Finding Fun in the Sun(dance)" incorrectly stated that the movies "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" and "Sin Nombre" were one and the same. In fact, the two are distinct films, both shown at Sundance. The former was by director and screenwriter John Krasinski and the latter by director and screenwriter Cary Joji Fukunaga...