The News Review:
- California dreaming for Stepanek
- A twist in Farah Khan’s tale?
- Prom Helps Teen Cancer Patients Feel Normal
- Desperate Hollywood: Screenwriters try to make the movie moguls pay
- Bangkok Post – McKinsey Quarterly
- Reviving the Pinoy Komiks
- Lifestyles: Dance dance | dance session classes : The Star nline…
California dreaming for Stepanek
TVNZ – Jul 23, 2007
Despite taking a medical timeout late in the match to havetreatment on his left hamstring Stepanek outplayed his morepowerful opponent with guile and impressive speed about thecourt. ut of action for six months last year because of a neck injurythat he felt might curtail his career the unseeded Czechcelebrated his second ATP title in exuberant fashion. He performed a break dance in front of the crowd before throwinghis racket into the stands and falling to the ground. “I don’t know what I did I just couldn’t believe that I wasable to win it” a beaming Stepanek told reporters. “I felt arelease in the body and then I just fell down. “It is an incredible feeling. At one point I was scared I wasnot going to play tennis any more.
A twist in Farah Khan’s tale?
Times of India – Jul 23, 2007
We mean time for a break from dancing. Farah’smade actors dance on train tops and now there’s a twist in the tale. Thechoreographer wants to be a full-time filmmaker now. Butshe will choreograph only for friends Karan Johar SRK and hubby Shirish Kunderand spend the rest of her time on new scripts.
Prom Helps Teen Cancer Patients Feel Normal
FXNews – Jul 23, 2007
They joke they have forgotten what that’s like. “We haven’t decided where to go yet” Anita de la Rocha says laughing. Just ne Dance? The DJ is spinning Sean Paul’s “Break it off” and Acosta wants to dance just one dance. His friend Josh Mack has already been on the dance floor several times. Mack 17 and Acosta met at the hospital last year when Mack was fighting cancer that eventually took his leg. The two have formed along with another young man their own clique of sorts teen boys brought together by cancer but whose interests trend to normal stuff: music jokes and well girls. They’ve even given each other nicknames.
Desperate Hollywood: Screenwriters try to make the movie moguls pay
The Independent – Independent – Jul 23, 2007
Few disputed the justice of receiving equitable royalties for their work no matter where it was distributed but the guild leadership was also worried that a rerun of 1988 would have similarly damaging results. Their worries were certainly warranted: just the threat of strike action by the writers prompted the networks to shy away from scripted dramas and comedies in favour of reality shows. What started as a relative trickle with Survivor Big Brother andWho Wants To Be a Millionaire? has turned into a flood – with Simon Cowell’s American Idol transferring the success of the UK’s Pop Idol and sparking a deluge of similarly formatted talent shows spanning everything from dancing (So You Think You Can Dance) to fashion (Project Runway) to cooking (Top Chef) to home design and even thanks to a new series on Fox called n The Lot film and television making. While these shows are a lot more scripted than they like to let on none employs WGA members to do the writing. Now in 2007 the industry finds itself at a new crossroads. The WGA membership is angry about the reality show surge and angrier still that it has come without a satisfactory deal on residuals for new media. In other words writers have seen the sources of available work dry up and are still not being fairly compensated – in their view – for the work they do get… The guild whose negotiators include Mr Cherry and Dreamgirls writer-director Bill Condon held two days of fractious negotiations with studio representatives last week but made little or no headway. They will have at each other again this week. Since the strike deadline is still more than three months away it seems unlikely that peace love and understanding will break out between the two sides soon. And that in turn is having its own curious knock-on effect. Studio executives are rushing projects into production just to make sure they have enough product to cover any strike-affected period. That is another way of saying they are approving scripts without really reading them – meaning that filmgoers across the planet should brace ourselves for a tidal wave of crap hitting our screens starting sometime in the latter half of 2008. The writers’ tough stance is meanwhile rippling out to the unions representing actors and directors both of which have contract deals set to expire next June.
Bangkok Post – McKinsey Quarterly
Bangkok Post – Jul 23, 2007
The rationalisation was `We didn’t do anything wrong because we didn’t break the law. ‘ Well Enron did break the law but many of the people who are undermining the trust of the public hold the view that morality simply means not breaking the law. To my generation that’s moral blindness" says Mr Yankelovich. Mr Yankelovich: The social contract with business is in a state of flux. Milton Friedman has had an enormous influence on the outlook of US business especially his interpretation of Adam Smith’s concept of the invisible hand which argues against a corporation’s broader engagement with society. Friedman’s view is that social good comes about automatically when companies make a profit… You have to learn how to balance the long-term growth of the company with enough short-term results so that you don’t have Wall Street eating you alive. Then I would suggest disbanding the compensation committee and its corrupt practice of working with outside consultants. It’s just a Kabuki dance. It didn’t start out that way in the same way that shareholder value didn’t start out perverted but it’s become perverted. All my retired CE friends are just astonished at what CEs are making today. Some dance! ——————————————————— Lenny Mendonca is a director in McKinsey’s San Francisco office and Matt Miller is an adviser to McKinsey. This article is adapted from one originally published in The McKinsey Quarterly.
Reviving the Pinoy Komiks
Manila Standard Today – Jul 23, 2007
After its performance in Istanbul the group proceeded to Bursa to participate in the International Golden Karagoz Dance Festival. Bayanihan which is celebrating its 50th year anniversary has performed worldwide and has received awards from many international competitions among them the Gold Temple Award and the Absolute Gold Award in Sicily. It has the distinction of being the first Filipino group to break into Broadway; the first non-American dance company to perform at the New York State Theater of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the first Filipino cultural group to perform in Russia and PRC; and the first Filipino dance company to perform at the World Showcase Millennium Village EPCT Disneyland Florida. 2007 Cerrudo concert series takes off Classical balladeer Bo Cerrudo fills your night with romance and nostalgia as he performs theater and cinema’s most memorable tunes during this year’s Cerrudo: Classico concert series at the Teatrino in Greenhills 8 p.
Lifestyles: Dance dance | dance session classes : The Star nline…
Shelby Star – Jul 23, 2007
Leah performs and teaches throughout the state. The four-hour class will have a lunch break in the middle. The morning session from 10 a. to noon will concentrate on warming up belly-dance style and learning how to isolate your body movement. The afternoon session from 12:30 to 2:30 p.