Monday, May 24, 2004

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS...:
From today's New York Post:
"Roger Ebert generally is considered one of the film world's greatest commentators. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun-Times film critic and co-host of the syndicated television program "Ebert & Roeper" also has a keen eye for investing.

Ebert was an early investor in search and advertising giant Google, according to the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. He and his wife Chaz were part of an elite group of Series B investors that included Amazon.com founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim and noted Silicon Valley attorney Larry Sonsini."

From Ebert's review of "ALONG CAME A SPIDER" (2001):
"As Cross and Flannigan follow leads, we also see the kidnapper and his victim, and are filled with admiration for her imagination; she is able to escape, set fires, swim toward shore and perform other feats far more difficult than a Google search."
"DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY" (2003):
"A Google search turns up 524,000 Web sites using "redneck"--amazingly, two and a half times as many as those using the n-word."
"THE CORE" (2003):
"So rare is this substance that a Google search reveals only 8,060 sites selling Unobtainium ski gear, jackets, etc."
"LOVING JEZEBEL" (2000):
"Strangely enough, her name is not included on the movie's official Web site, or in the Internet Movie Database, and it is a measure of her unknown status that even Google, mightiest of the search engines, turns up absolutely no references to her.

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