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The doings of the international art world often seem arcane and over the top, but never moreso than as depicted in The Man Who Sold His Skin . This is a madly dramatic and engrossing melodrama about a political refugee whose unique predicament bundles with it issues pertaining to personal and political identity, the Middle East quagmire, romantic rejection and the outer limits of art world presumption and extravagance. Tunisia’s shortlisted submission in the International Feature Oscar race is a very tasty couscous of fine ingredients and flat-out entertaining enough to warrant significant international exposure. Kaouther Ben Hania ’s follow-up to her 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard selection Beauty And The Dogs is notable for its gutsy narrative moves, rich visuals and sheer drive, which marks her, along with her notably resourceful and elegant Lebanese cinematographer Christopher Aoun, as talents who should emerge even more decisively before long. Related … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Tunisia’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’

Dolly Parton is many things to so many people: singer-songwriter, actress, humorist, icon. But to nearly 2 million kids around the world, she’s their librarian. Since 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program has delivered meticulously chosen, personalized, age-appropriate books every month to children up to five years old — all free of charge. Parton’s charitable endeavor, first launched in her native Sevier County, in the foothills of Tennessee ’s Great Smoky Mountains, was inspired by her hardworking, wise, yet functionally illiterate father. The program is the cornerstone of Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, which she started in 1988, initially with the aim of encouraging students to stay in school and offering scholarships and financial incentives for them upon graduation. The foundation’s efforts helped the county’s dropout rates to plummet from nearly 40 percent to six percent, and mobilized the community to work toward sustaining that improvement. Related … [Read more...] about Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

UPDATED : Stormy Daniels ’ 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper drove the CBS newsmag to 21.3 million viewers, up +111% from last week and its most watched episode since Steve Kroft’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama in November 2008, shortly after he was elected president. That decade-old interview had attracted 24.5 million viewers, with all three segments devoted to the president-elect and his wife. Previously this morning, Sunday’s 60 Minutes hit 16.3/27 in the 56 Nielsen metered markets – a big night for Stormy, being way up compared with previous Sunday’s  7.6/13. Back on November 16, 2008, the Obamas’ interview clocked a metered-marked 17.4/26. Cooper’s taped interview with Daniels will repeat tonight on his CNN primetime show, AC360 . Related Story Hollywood Reacts To Stormy Daniels '60 Minutes' Interview Interest in Daniels’ story had been running high for weeks, reaching the boiling point Sunday. Several hours after the … [Read more...] about Stormy Daniels Bags Best ’60 Minutes’ Ratings Since Obamas’ Post-Election Sit-Down In ’08

He taught the craft to Cary Grant and Johnny Carson and performed with Glen Campbell in Las Vegas. Mark Wilson, an influential magician who played a pioneering role in proving that magic could thrive on television, has died. He was 91. Wilson died Jan. 19 of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, a publicist announced. From 1960-65, Wilson produced and starred with his wife, Nani Darnell, in the first network TV series of its type, The Magic Land of Allakazam , which ran on Saturday mornings on CBS, ABC and then in syndication and featured Bev Bergeron as Rebo the Clown. In addition to performing all over the world with his wife and their sons, Greg and Mike, Wilson taught celebrities like Cary Grant, Bill Bixby and Johnny Carson how to employ magic in their work and helped set up tricks for films, TV productions, commercials, amusement parks and live attractions. A founding member of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, he also authored an instructional book, The Mark … [Read more...] about Mark Wilson, Magician on TV’s ‘The Magic Land of Allakazam,’ Dies at 91

Life would be so easy without having to deal with challenging customers, but being in business means being in competition, and that means delivering on your customers’ needs, wants or demands. As entrepreneurs, we are in competition to develop, sell and deliver innovative solutions that meet or exceed our customers’ expectations. According to the Havard Business Review, the cost of acquiring new customers can be anywhere between five and 25 times more than retaining existing ones. Furthermore, industry research from Bain & Company indicates that growing existing customer relationships can be more profitable than developing new ones. Additional research supports how the useful concept of customer lifetime value (CLV) can help business leaders deliver more value to their clients . In addition to these financial discussions, it’s my experience that striving to retain existing customers can drive overall performance improvements and lead to exciting product innovations. … [Read more...] about How Challenging Customers Can Drive Business Value