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...told them I'd like to take the technology and spin it off," says Brehler, 42. On second thought, Siemens saw the light, and its venture-capital unit provided some start-up financing. EnOcean expects to become cash positive soon. "Today everybody's talking about smart homes and buildings. In this environment, our products are the eyes and ears of these intelligent systems," says Brehler. Good thing there's a real company to sell them...
DIED. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime...
...husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star Dec. 16 as an engineering professor from the fictional Cal Sci University. As the closest thing scientists have to a pop-culture ambassador, Nye has one script note to suggest: "More romance," he says. "Smart men get women--at least that's what I hear...
Carell’s laid-back career aspirations have allowed him to take on roles that run the risk of comparison to past incarnations by other critically admired actors. For example, he is signed on to star as Maxwell Smart in next year’s “Get Smart,” a remake of the cult hit ’60s television show, his role on “The Office” was played on British television to universal acclaim by Ricky Gervais, and his Uncle Arthur character in “Bewitched?...
Menand praised Schuker’s performance both inside and outside of the classroom. “Lauren is not just incredibly smart and well-read and resourceful; she’s fun, one of the funnest people at Harvard, or anywhere else I’ve worked,” he wrote in an e-mail...