humiliating for all those involved‚ especially David Duchovny. His first feature film after his rise to television and Internet fame as Special Agent Fox Mulder of The X-Files‚ Playing God was supposed to launch the actor’s big screen career. Instead‚ Playing God is such a failure that it is sure to turn into what Point Break was for Keanu Reeves: a showcase of his worst acting surrounded by an even worse plot and characters. Duchovny plays Eugene Sands‚ a L.A. junkie who used to be a L.A. surgeon
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Devin Fowler Dr. Fichtel English 101 9 February 2013 Ethnicity and the Big Screen Since the beginning of movies‚ the various ethnicities have been portrayed in ways which give ethnicities their own trademark stereotypes. Sometimes these portrayals can be powerful and thought provoking with movies such as Crash and Malcolm X. But usually movies play fast and loose with race‚ particularly with minorities. Most of the time these fast and loose portrayals are offensive without making the conscience
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Case Summary Big Screen Studios is one of the largest Hollywood movies studios. Buck Knox‚ the president of Big Screen has established Big Screen as a studio that produced cost-efficient and profitable films. The studio also had a good reputation for being supportive of the creative side of film making. However‚ in the last two years Big Screen had invested in several major productions that for various reasons had all performed well below expectation. Knox heard that some of the board members were
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Rizal in the Big Screen: A Summary Paper on Jose Rizal the Movie It was finished. Jose Rizal’s life‚ works‚ and writings finally culminated in the vast expanse of land facing the Manila Bay where he stood in front of the firing squad and the teeming crowd of Filipinos and Spaniards all under the morning sun of December 30‚ 1896. This is just one of the memorable scenes in the film based on his life‚ not only for its historical significance‚ but for its cinematography and focus on production
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has Moved Again? The 2015 Tampa Bay Times article proposes the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s (BBBSA) move is good for Tampa because it will bring jobs‚ visits by board members‚ and it promotes the career of one of their hometown leaders‚ Pam Iorio (Thalji‚ 2015). Two headquarters moves and six CEO’s (between 2009 and 2014) creates significant organizational stress‚ add in a Department of Justice investigation and anyone would expect massive changes at
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Big Spaceship Introduction Big Spaceship is a fast-growing creative advertising and marketing agency headquartered in Brooklyn‚ New York. Founded by Michael Lebowitz in 2000 with only a few employees‚ Big Spaceship has reached great success and good reputation at the first stage. By 2008‚ Big Spaceship has already gained around $10 million annual revenue with 50 employees (Groysberg‚ B.‚ & Slind‚ M.‚ 2009). In 2009‚ Big Spaceship was awarded one of the World’s Leading Independent Agencies by the
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Big Brother Case Study The core issue on the hands of the Big brother agency is that the volunteers are scarce and the total matches between big and little brothers have dropped by 40% over the past 2 years. There are a number of boys in the waiting list sometimes for even 2 years anticipating to be matched with a big brother. Problems Identified: Recruitment and retention of volunteer Big brothers are crucial issues for the organization‚ increasing the comfort zone for the volunteers. The
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Online Marketing at Big Skinny The case study is about a wallet company name Big Skinny. One day the Big Skinny CEO‚ Kiril Alexandrov bicycled his way to work and his phone rang constantly. His marketing director and wife‚ Catherine Alexandrov had called and said that they had sold 4‚000 wallets. The problem was that the online store had glitches and most of these wallets were given away for free. A few weeks earlier the two were promoting their wallets at the Harvard street fair and were
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Analysis on Big IT Project Failure Lawsuit Claims Epicor’s Two-year Effort Delivered ’useless’ Software http://muckrack.com/link/eVdy/lawsuit-claims-epicors-two-year-effort-delivereduseless-software Beverage distributor Major Brands is suing Epicor‚ alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor failed to deliver a satisfactory system after years of effort and significant cost overruns‚ and then offered a solution that would force the company to install a new version that hadn’t
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2.2 Problems concerning the Big Dig The Big Dig is known as a project which exceeded the planned costs with an enormous amount. Numerous misjudgements and mistakes are made. And not only the costs are exceeded‚ but also the construction time is doubled. Everything that caused these extra costs (from ✩2.8 billion planned to a final cost of ✩14.6 billion) and delays and all the social consequences will be discussed in this chapter. 2.2.1 Conrete In 2005 the Massachusetts State Police found evidence
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