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...cabaret debut at Feinstein?s at the Regency (a night club in one of Manhattan?s swanker hotels), and, the poor sap, he wants to please us. His show, a three-week tribute to Valentine's Day emotions, is called ?Love / Life? - which, unless you take the / as a slash (?Love Slashes Life?), couldn?t be sunnier. His advice is to ?Live and laugh and dream.? His mission, he tells the audience, is to send us out ?feeling a little bit better than when you came in.? He confesses, or avers, that ?The sound of applause is delicious.? (He turns...
...Americana French President Jacques Chirac may be the anti?George W. Bush in foreign policy, but when it comes to lowering taxes, the two leaders are of one mind. Chirac is renewing his push to slash French income tax by 30% before 2007 - a promise from his 2002 campaign...
...They’re both real athletic out on the wings,” Giovacchini said. “They like to slash, and can get to the basket and finish...
...popularity, Kodak's profitable film business has gone into free fall. Not the first Kodak CEO to try to refocus the company on the digital future, Carp is clearly taking the biggest risks. He put his marker down 16 months ago when he announced that Kodak would cut dividends, slash investments in its film business--and milk its declining profits to fund $3 billion worth of acquisitions and investments crucial to the digital transformation. The market response was swift and brutal: Kodak's stock price plunged 18% that day to a 20-year low. Carp followed up with a plan...
Michael Lynton doesn't fear challenges--he embraces them. That's a good thing, because he is leading Sony Pictures Entertainment through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. At Sony, the former Disney executive who then headed Penguin Group and later AOL Europe will have to slash costs, find new opportunities in video-on-demand and combat file-sharing piracy. But Lynton believes there's a future for DVDs; he helped bring in a major financing partner for Sony's purchase of MGM and its valuable library of movies. "With new technologies," Lynton says, "the DVD becomes...