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Vivendi's 3rd-quarter profit increases more than fourfold
The Associated PressFrench media and telecommunications giant Vivendi said Thursday that profit increased more than fourfold in the third quarter, to 2.76 billion euros ($3.46 billion) from 578 million euros a year earlier, thanks to a gain of 2.32 billion euros on the...Tags: Game Playing, Earnings, Video Games, Santa Monica, Activision Inc.
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Goals are all the rage on the Continent
Sometimes there are days such as this, days when every other shot seems to find the back of the net.
The eight European Champions League matches played Tuesday produced an extraordinary 36 goals, or an average of 4.5 goals per game.
Leading the way...Tags: David Beckham, Basketball
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Who strikes?
Today, writer-producer Craig Mazin and web entrepreneur Matt Edelman discuss the traditional view of labor as it applies to writers. Later in the week, they'll discuss why writers should or shouldn't be given special consideration with royalties, new...Tags: Ellen DeGeneres, Work Relations, Labor Markets, Theme Park Vacations, Consumer Electronics Industry
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'The Sea Inside'
Times Staff WriterAlejandro Amenábar's deeply moving "The Sea Inside" transcends what by rights should have been a bummer of a story to become one of the most profound and uplifting dramas of the year. Based on the true story of Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish quadriplegic who...Tags: Suicide, Assisted Suicide, Javier Bardem, Movies, Euthanasia
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There Are No Words for Zidane's Head Butt
Times Staff WriterBERLIN — There is some precedent for Zinedine Zidane's unceremonious ejection from the World Cup final Sunday night for his startling head butt that floored Italy's Marco Materazzi. FULL COVERAGE In 1998, when France was on its way to its only...Tags: World Cup, Multi-Sport Events
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Anthony Pellicano and His Tangled Web
Times Staff WritersAnthony Pellicano cut a figure straight out of "L.A. Confidential." Intimidation for hire — the tough-talking gumshoe with the Louisville Slugger always at the ready. Over the course of his 20-some years in Los Angeles, he also managed to insinuate...Tags: Legal Services, Books and Magazines, Sylvester Stallone, Business Enterprises, Garry Shandling
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'Anatomy of Hell'
Times Staff WriterFrance's fiery Catherine Breillat gets down to business fast in "Anatomy of Hell." A darkly beautiful woman (Amira Casar) wanders through a gay disco and touches a man (Rocco Siffredi), confident he not only will follow her to a restroom but see that...Tags: Physiology, West Los Angeles, Natural Science, Minority Groups, Cinema Industry
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'Sex Is Comedy'
Times Staff WriterSex was anything but funny in Catherine Breillat's aptly titled "Anatomy of Hell," her recent exercise in gyno-gothic horror. But "Sex Is Comedy," which was based on Breillat's own experiences directing sex scenes, is equally true to its title. Produced...Tags: Los Angeles, Celebrity, Movies, Santa Monica
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'Bad Education'
Times Staff WriterIf the biggest political act of Pedro Almodóvar's early film career was a refusal to mention the dictatorship that smothered Spain in hypocritical piety for 40 years, "Bad Education" is his latest. Now 53 and as contrarian as ever, Almodóvar finally...Tags: Billy Wilder, Christianity, North Carolina, Santa Monica, Roman Catholic
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'Transfixed'
Times Staff Writer"Transfixed" is an absorbing mystery thriller set in the high-risk world of Brussels' transsexual prostitutes and entertainers, which is an ideal milieu for veteran director Francis Girod's outré tastes and wide-ranging sympathies. Based on a novel by...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Sexual Assault, Police, Movies, Perrine
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'Intimate Strangers'
Times Staff WriterPatrice Leconte's "Intimate Strangers" opens with the brisk economy of a film made by a master screen storyteller. A beautiful but distraught-looking young woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) enters a fine old Paris building. Its concierge, who has been wrapped...Tags: Television, Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Santa Ana, West Hollywood
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'Bon Voyage'
Times Staff WriterIn a vast Paris movie palace a glittering premiere of a comedy is taking place with the formally dressed audience laughing at every joke. The camera picks up the one person not joining in the merriment, a beautiful but tense young woman sitting in a box...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Maurice Chevalier, Peter Coyote, Isabelle Adjani, Santa Ana
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