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...haven't fully absorbed that the political rules have changed on Telstra, including those hard-driving executives who run the company. Since he arrived last year, chief executive Sol Trujillo has participated in a flamboyant campaign against the regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; senior ministers are in thrall, if that's the right word, to his charm, moxie and talent to infuriate. Trujillo, however, is doing what he was hired to do: get the best deals possible for Telstra shareholders, hurt the competition and revamp the company for growth. The market has yet to applaud his efforts...
...with the fact that young American males - the most avidly courted summer movie audience - get all tense and nervous when they see a man and a woman (or, for that matter, a boy and a girl) get down to consequential lovemaking. It is tiresome to be held in constant thrall to their immaturity. I know there are profits to be made from this kind of filmmaking, but I don't think the movies can really prosper unless they reconnect with their romantic roots, tell us at least a few stories of love lost and found, squandered and redeemed. These stories...
...Here, then, is a Cannes for Dummies, compiled by two people already in the thrall of their 33rd Festival. Since 1973, we've been covering Cannes for one publication or another - TIME, of course, being the most distinguished -and have learned a few things along the way. In subsequent blogs, we'll get back to the movies, the parties, the interviews, the prizes. But for just this once, catch up on the basics...
...love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning to peter out. Along with Bernardo Bertolucci’s debut, released the year before, “Fists” heralded a new period in Italian cinema. But, “Fists” is also entertaining, even now. Families are often embarrassing...
...fact, Japanese society is still in thrall to the Korea Wave, a surge of interest in Korean pop, films, TV dramas and design that first overtook the nation in 2002, when the two countries co-hosted the World Cup and bilateral relations were at their best. Many Japanese politicians, meanwhile, seem either incapable of understanding Korean ire toward Japan or simply don't care. This further fuels the cycle of resentment and distrust. In 2005, for example, Shimane prefecture (the Japanese local government to which the nation claims the islands belong) passed an ordinance designating Feb. 22-the 100th anniversary...