No longer content to play underdeveloped roles in overstuffed tentpoles, China’s screen talents are turning down L.A. offers in search of bigger paydays, greater exposure and meatier roles at home. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Hong Kong’s A-list talent weren’t considered true superstars until they had made their mark in Hollywood.
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Takeo Hisamatsu, a 40-year industry veteran, will succeed Yasushi Shiina this month.
Takeo Hisamatsu will be the new head of Tokyo International Film Festival , succeeding Yasushi Shiina on Mar. 10, the fest announced Friday. Hisamatsu, a 40-year veteran of the industry, has served as an executive managing director of studio Shochiku and deputy general manager of Warner Bros.
Trump Aides’ Bid to Plug Leaks Creates Unease Among Some Civil Servants
US President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017. Traditionally the first address to a joint session of Congress by a newly-… elected president is not referred to as a State of the Union.
The top 20 presidents in US history, according to historians
It should come as little surprise to anyone that, for the third time in a row, historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the best US President. As part of C-SPAN’s third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership , almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within the context of his times.
Spotify to Add Streaming Holdout Prince in Time for Grammys
Spotify Ltd. said it will include music from Prince’s Warner Bros. catalog on its streaming service starting Sunday, making widely available the work of an artist who jealously guarded his copyrights.
More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban
Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.
More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban
Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.
Trying to automate a home can take patience and an eye for detail.
Jacob Atalla, vice president of sustainability initiatives at KB Home, views the “scenes” he can use inside Apple’s Home app to control the various smart home devices inside a model home in the company’s Promenade development on Communications Hill in San Jose. The company is now offering packages of smart home features that are designed to work with Apple iPhones and iPads for houses in that neighborhood and in a development in Fremont.