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...reduced-rate trip to Bora Bora taken by a quartet of Midwestern guys (Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love) and their spouses or squeezes (four actresses with Ks in their names). It's now 13 years since Vaughn and Favreau made their early rep with the smart buddy-comedy Swingers. In the interim, Favreau has become a respected director (Elf, Iron Man) and Vaughn, pretty much, a movie star. Three of the films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office...
...breaking Amazon's chokehold in the U.S., where the company controls 60% of the e-reader market, according to Forrester Research. But the edge Amazon gained when it launched the Kindle could be blunted by evolving technology and changing consumer needs. Currently, more people read e-books on their smart phones than they do on dedicated devices like e-readers...
...Mulligan is the film's headline, pulse and revelation. In its blithely subversive way, her starmaking performance is a co-conspirator with the movie. Both of them win you over with smart talk and pretty feelings, then kick you in the heart...
Unlike Detroit's automakers, Fisker and Tesla are also export-oriented. "We already sell EV components to Daimler, which will soon begin marketing an electric version of its popular and affordable Smart car," says Tesla's O'Connell. Fisker says his company stands to benefit immensely as support from countries around the world for clean vehicles increases. Germany recently unveiled an action plan to have 1 million electric cars on its roads by 2020 and Japan wants electric vehicles to make up half of all vehicle sales within a decade, he notes...
...power broker; the former philosophy professor seemed better suited to lecture halls. The scholarly demeanor, however, masked his grit. "He doesn't take s___ from anyone," admitted one of Brand's toughest critics. In college sports, the bully will always be the bigger man on campus. But this smart guy was the bigger...