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...Glover will direct Toussaint, which will be shot in Venezuela and co-produced by the Villa del Cine, a state-funded film and TV foundation. A Chavez adviser says the project is simply meant to help jump-start Venezuela's dormant film industry - and notes that Venezuela's is hardly the first government to subsidize moviemaking. It's common in many European nations as well as Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico. "For a country like Venezuela, it's really the only way to build a cinema infrastructure," says the adviser. As for the built-in politics...
...occasional travelers do. The Revival Treatment ($155) at the Banyan Tree Seychelles, tel: (248) 383 500, doubles the medicine, with two therapists simultaneously kneading your face, hands and feet. The final ahh is a synchronized back-and-foot massage. You can opt to have the treatment in your sumptuous villa or in one of the spa's hillside pavilions - all are ensconced amid lush vegetation...
...overall, foreign markets account for less than 5% of the NFL's revenue, and even for the NBA, a true global brand, overseas media rights amount to just $130 million a year. But no sensible business leader is starry-eyed about sports. A few miles outside Birmingham, at Aston Villa's training ground, new owner Randy Lerner is setting out his vision for the club. From the slightly scruffy facilities to the club's balance sheet, this is no Manchester United or Chelsea. For the $142 million the boss of the NFL's Cleveland Browns' paid for Villa in August...
...heaps of cash, building relationships in the local market is a cost-effective way to build brand awareness and suit longer-term Asian sensibilities," says Geoffrey Gold, ceo of Football Dynamics Asia, the Jakarta-based consultants. To lend a bigger hand to mid- or low-placed sides like Villa and Sheffield, the Premier League could learn from the NBA. Rather than basketball teams marketing themselves individually, the NBA represents the collective interest of the league when it sells itself in places like China. "The NBA has the vision, focus and drive that the [Premier League] doesn't," says Terry Rhoads...
...table in the bar, Manikas is describing his daily routine. He wakes up at 4 a.m. in the company's villa down the street, has coffee, eats breakfast and is on a bus at 6, headed for the new embassy. After his shift he comes back, and if there has been a big bombing in Baghdad that day, he calls home. "Every time the media shows something on TV," he says, "I have to call my wife and say it wasn't near me." He feels safe in the Green Zone. "It is written in my karma where...