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Prestowitz first book was Trading Places, published in 1988, about how America ceded its future to Japan and how to reclaim it. He has written quite a few books since then, but in a sense, his latest book is Trading Places redux, except that China has taken the place of Japan.
More than 30 years ago, Japan was stealing manufacturing jobs from America. The author proposed certain strategies for the US government to negotiate with Japan and thus rectify the trade imbalance and bring manufacturing back.
Japan was a much-feared juggernaut back then. The venture capital community in Silicon Valley was so intimidated by Godzilla, they always asked, Can Japan steal our ideas and make the widget better and cheaper?
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The end of the month means a fresh new crop of interesting films coming to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime but it also means scrambling to say goodbye to all the great movies you forgot about or always meant to get around to but didn’t. You’re looking for the good stuff and you don’t have a lot of time. We get it; we got you covered.
We’ve combed through the wave of outgoing streaming releases to bring these platforms have to offer during this, the twilight of the month. Here there are, 10 of the best movies leaving the major streaming platforms by May 1.
Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1980 to 1989
23 Apr 2021
In part seven of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1980 and 1989.
Like the fifties, because a Republican president very much defined the era, the eighties continue to be unfairly maligned as a terrible decade for movies by foo foo critics. As you will see below this is an outrageous and anti-science lie.
Let’s begin…
Raging Bull and only
Raging Bull should’ve won Best Picture, Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut is constantly attacked as something along the lines of a subpar movie of the week.
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Originally published on April 13, 2021 12:40 pm
In 2006, Eddie Murphy sat on the stage of the iconic Inside the Actors Studio. Relaxed and confident, the former King of the Box Office was getting rave reviews and Oscar buzz for his performance in
Dreamgirls. It had been 10 years since his last comeback, 1996’s smash hit
The Nutty Professor. After that, the comedian found some success giving his star power to mostly bland family comedies (
Dr. Doolittle, The Haunted Mansion) and his voice to a few certified animated classics (
Shrek,
Mulan), but never seemed to find the right vehicle for his unmistakable blend of comedic edge and leading man charm. But with