Word: talented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly helps you to start a conversation with someone, but you have to have some kind of talent," he says. "Frankly, people would rather see prior success in the real world than they would someone who just went to a good college...
Rock's gift is this: he can make hard truths sound funny. It's an invaluable talent in a disinformation age in which it has become more and more difficult to talk about things as they actually are. There's a near constant rush toward metaphorization, toward transmuting events into mediagenic terms. Oral sex isn't about sex, some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through...
...concert films, listened to records by Bill Cosby and Woody Allen, memorized jokes by Moms Mabley. He haunted comedy clubs, watching other comics. One summer night in 1986, Rock was hanging out in the Comic Strip when he saw Eddie Murphy. He got Lucien Hold, the club's talent coordinator, to introduce him. Murphy asked if Rock was on that night. He wasn't...but now he was. Rock decided to take the stage and, as they say in comedy, he killed. Murphy gave him a small role as a valet in Beverly Hills Cop II. A few years later...
...verge of a great democratization. The technology is now in place to change the way films are made, sold and shared. Thanks to computers, digital cameras and the Internet, many independent filmmakers can afford to make, market and distribute their own work. Perhaps the immense pool of film talent that has lurked just beyond our local multiplex movie theaters has a better shot at the big screen now that it's armed with the resources to create a blockbuster of a different flavor. The savvy directors of The Blair Witch Project are pioneers in what is destined...
...other industries, the challenge isn't persuading employees to contribute; it's keeping up with their demands for even more generous benefits. Keen competition for technical talent convinced Joanne Carthey in 1995 that she needed to offer a 401(k) plan to the 25 employees of her Scottsdale, Ariz., software company, NetPro. "In high tech, if you don't have a plan, your employees just go next door," Carthey says. By 1996, NetPro began offering stock options as a further benefit in order to keep up with its Silicon Valley peers. Employees buy shares in NetPro at a discount, before...