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American movies to me - and, I mean, I`ve said this before a million times - are becoming more and more homogeneous because the marketing objective - and marketing now plays such a major role in movies that it almost obliterates everything else - the marketing objective is the lowest common denominator. "You can`t put that in; let`s put the car chase, let`s put the sex scene, let`s put the fight in, let`s get them back together, they end up happily, they walk off into the sun..." So that there`s a formulaic predictability to American movies. That, allied with the cynicism of the way movies are put together - product placement and spin-offs and toys and all kinds of crap that, you know, have nothing to do with the telling of stories - they`ve turned American movies into McMovies. So that when the movie-goer gets his movie, it`s like a hamburger: he doesn`t want a piece of aubergine in there; he wants his onion, his tomato, his hamburger and his bun. And he doesn`t want the bun hard, he wants it soft. And he wants it in two minutes.

With so much uncertainty about the eventual positioning/future of Liz Claiborne`s department store partners (former May Department Stores door closures, potential spin-offs of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, repositioning of Sears), we would not be surprised to see Liz Claiborne management take a cautious approach to 2006 guidance.

Our drive-offs the first part of the month were very severe,

He will definitely miss next week`s game against Wakefield but, with the first weekend off in the play-offs, he is aiming to be right for the St Helens game,

You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that`s relevant or do you want to miss some things? The feedback I`m hearing from companies is, if you can get them 50 per cent or 80 percent there, that makes a huge impact,

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There`s a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it`s about deliberately choosing to be different.

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting,

David will kick PATs and short field goals. I will be doing long field goals, all kick offs and situational punts. I was going to kick all backed-up punts and all pooched punts. Pat and I will alternate open field kicks.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.