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Director. Actor. Key Grip. Foley Mixer. Driver for Mr. Damon. Special-effects supervisor ... Can't stay in your seat till the end of the credits? That's because moviemaking is an extreme team art form, requiring a throng of people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
...disorder," along with kleptomania and pyromania. But throughout Asia, it's considered harmless entertainment. Low-stakes mah-jongg tournaments are a fixture of practically every Chinese family gathering - even at funerals. "In Western culture, people go fishing and have other hobbies," says Elda Chan, a certified gambling counselor and supervisor of the Even Centre. "In Chinese culture, people go gambling...
Commander Daniel Maher, Pennington's current supervisor, attributes her success to her ability to communicate across cultures--military, medical or ethnic. But Pennington credits her leadership skills to the inspiration she receives from others and her desire to give something back. "It wasn't always easy to balance a military career and raising a family," she says. "But I have always tried to do something for someone else every day. People inspire you, and you inspire them, and after 21 years I can look back and say, 'Things are better because I cared. I know I made a difference...
...events just create a shared experience for people," says Lawrence, "nothing more, nothing less." So managers help employees make a clear connection between the exercises and their daily responsibilities. At a recent session in which the trainees played the game red/black (teams score higher by coordinating their strategies), a supervisor from Indonesia linked the exercise to dealing with lost luggage without passing blame...
...film was directed by Sean Cunningham (“Friday the 13th”), Joe Gaeta (“The Matrix”), Ken Russell (“Lair of the White Worm”) and Joe Dante (“Gremlins”). Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Skotak (“Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) worked on the special effects. Hellman’s segment of “Trapped Ashes” screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006. John Saxon, veteran of such classics...