Zooey Deschanel is the pin-up girl for hipsters all over, proving she doesn't need to be in a epic to have petition. Just like in her new film, '(500) Days of Summer,' she is probable breaking hearts everywhere, but what's not to love about her? In the August issue of GQ, Deschanel stays pretty low-key about her adoring male fans. "Everyone romanticizes somebody," she said. See Zooey's GQ Photos >>
With midnight Wednesday screening sell-outs reportedly numbering in the thousands, Half-Blood Prince seems destined to fulfill its destiny: Namely, the longer the wait for a Harry Potter movie, the more a Harry Potter movie makes. (Really. Give or take an omission. We did the math.)
Every one of this would look to leave Half-Blood Prince, scrubbed from an originally scheduled November 2008 debut, poised to strike it very rich. The lag time between it and the earlier entry, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the series' best ever yet.
Since stars of the Old wealth go, Shu Kim and Khanh Pham flickered. effective for a storied finance firm — Kim, 40, as in-house counsel and Pham, 33, as a real estate investment banker — the two women deployed classic analytical left-brain skills to keep a seemingly well-oiled device humming. A machine called Lehman Brothers.
Lehman is dead, but the two New Yorkers are alive and positive, thanks to a easy yet significant shift. They embraced their right brains, the bold, creative lobe that in the New Economy can make the difference among reinvention and death.
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"Those old jobs are just not there anymore, so to stay alive you have to think outside the box," says Pham, who along with her former colleague recently launched Shustir.com, a marketing website for small businesses. Now, instead of parsing legal and financial documents, the two brainstorm innovative ways to bring their new brand to the masses, relying on flights of creative fancy rather than rote skills.