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...Rogen will be as the angelic, dopey face on the posters for next month's Knocked Up, a movie written and directed by Judd Apatow, the guy who cast him for Freaks and Geeks. It's the same strategy Apatow used to sell his movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin: Put a huge unknown face in the middle of a billboard and hope people get curious. But at least Virgin's Steve Carell looked vaguely like a handsome leading man. Rogen doesn't. So the arc of his career makes little sense to anyone, including Rogen, who is walking around...
...Neeleman has been justly praised, in TIME and elsewhere, for brilliantly formulating JetBlue's strategy and getting it off the ground. You'd be surprised how easy it is to start an airline in the U.S. (Unless your name is Virgin America and the industry freaks about the prospect of a Richard Branson-linked competitor entering the domestic industry.) There are plenty of planes to lease, and loads of pilots to fly them. And that's exactly why hundreds of airline start ups have sprung to life and augered in since the industry was deregulated...
What propels The Kabul Beauty School are the stories of its students. One of them faces shame and possible death because her husband-to-be is about to discover, on their wedding night, that she's not a virgin. (Rodriguez helps out with blood from her own finger, cleverly repackaged.) A young woman's husband insists she show her obedience by sleeping with other men; it turns out he's a pimp, and she narrowly avoids a lifetime of prostitution. Indeed, hardly a page goes by without somebody collapsing in sobs. Male readers especially will find the book sodden with...
...Virgin founder Richard Branson, Time Warner ceo Richard Parsons and Gayle King, editor of O magazine...
...profit Design Corps who is consulting on the Katrina Furniture Project and worries that New Orleans' distinctive architecture will vanish in a city still dotted with FEMA trailers. Many of the materials used to build the homes more than a century ago are irreplaceable, including the virgin cypress from local swamps and antique "barge boards." Made of 2-in.-thick oak, the boards came from the sides of barges, which were built in the Midwest but got scrapped after making their way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans more than a century ago. "You couldn't buy those materials...