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...badly the reputations of Pacino and De Niro have suffered in the past 13 years, and how fully the studios have abandoned the kind of pictures that made them stars. Righteous Kill is not a classic like The Godfather a or critical darling like Heat. It's a workaday crime thriller, opening in more than 3,100 theaters. But it's likely to be profitable for Overture, which is almost certain to recoup the more than $10 million investment it made in Righteous Kill at the Cannes Film Festival last year. "If it does $25 million lifetime...
...Microsoft Exchange--the industry standard for synching corporate e-mail, calendars, contacts and so on--Apple is pitching its phone to business users as well as to consumers. So, aside from cost--AT&T's rates for the iPhone are way steeper--how does it compare with my old workaday BlackBerry...
...room once occupied by Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou among its attractions, it's probably safe to say that most of the guests at this spa in Taian, Miaoli county - a two-hour drive from Taipei - are there to get away from all thought of politics, business and workaday living...
...players in the Nascent electric-car industry are taking different routes to market. Tesla Motors is building its $109,000 Roadster for the Hollywood set. Moving down market, Phoenix is building a $47,500 workaday pickup truck. For those looking for a cheap commuter car, Aptera, Tango, Think City and Zenn are all trying to meet that need with small, inexpensive electric vehicles that can be charged to cover enough miles to handle the daily commute...
...customary now to compare him with Edward Hopper. Like Hopper, Bechtle has a gift for finding the melancholy note in sunlight itself, as well as for the abstract underpinnings of the world. In Six Houses on Mound Street, 2006, with its stark cubes and fretwork of painted crosswalks, the workaday scene seems to be held in place by the guy-wires of some enigmatic order...