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James sat quietly, knowing that his father, who controls not only BSkyB but also the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox television networks and newspapers around the world, would quash any dissent. But BSkyB shareholders may want to stick around to see how the show plays out. After a mediocre early business career--he started a rap-music label and lost News Corp. money in a bad Internet play--James proved himself at the company's Star TV. A karate enthusiast, he transformed the lossmaking Asian satellite broadcaster into the largest private TV player in India and penetrated the booming...
...want to annoy Satoshi Kon, ask him why he makes cartoons. Suggest that instead of toiling away in his smoky studio drawing mundane Tokyo street scenes, he might be better off investing in a movie camera and just filming the city in all its quotidian banality. Kon's response will start before you finish your sentence. His eyes will narrow, his lips will curl into a sneer, and with a quiet menace he'll recite the line that has become his mantra through countless interviews and film-festival question-and-answer sessions: "I'm an anim? director...
...refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his field that encouraged Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Mad House animation studio, to choose him to direct Perfect Blue, a paranoid psycho-thriller about a teen idol dragged through the sleazier realms of Japanese pop culture. The film turned out to be Kon's breakthrough. Until then, he had been making slow but steady progress through the industry, working his way up from being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama's eye. "I needed...
Despite some initial misgivings, by early 1962 the Corporation had agreed to the mural commission, and by October of that year Pusey had previewed the murals in Rothko’s studio and recommended their acceptance...
...initial disappointment of his parents, McCarty took a leave of absence from Harvard after his first semester and enrolled in the prestigious New England Conservatory the following January. Studying the bass extensively, McCarty enjoyed his studio teachers and the stimulating environment. Still, he couldn’t escape the haunting shadow of his earlier high school chemistry days. Before even entering Harvard, his strong chemistry record was the talk of the department. Sharing a mutual love of music and chemistry, Justin quickly formed a relationship as a first-year with the then senior lecturer and freshmen adviser in the Chemistry...