Office star bags a role in Mission Impossible III
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Ricky Gervais  Creator  of  the  popular American sitcom Office has been offered a role opposite Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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Irrfan Khan has appeared in different shades in all his movies. And now, this talented actor will rock on an item
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Even two-time Oscar winners like  Kevin Spacey sometimes need a career makeover.
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Can The Office star revitalize romantic comedy?
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An attempt to carve out  "Office Space" in a warehouse store setting, Greg Coolidge's  "Employee of the Month" falls short of that inspired Mike Judge  mark but manages to retain a certain goofy appeal thanks to the  stand-up efforts of its comically adept cast members.
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Walt Disney Co.&#39;s directors nominated Michael Ovitz to serve on its board for another three years at a meeting just weeks before forcing him out of his job as
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The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.
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Shooting on Mission: Impossible 3 is delayed after star Tom Cruise was "forced" to find a new director.
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London-based businessman Raj Kundra is seeing the actress.
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British newcomer Gemma  Arterton has been cast as the "Bond girl" for the latest  installment of the 007 franchise, currently shooting in London,  the film's producer said.
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The Oscar-winning   thesp is reuniting with Ron Howard to star in the big-screen version of   author Dan Brown's hugely successful bestseller The Da Vinci   Code.
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Imagine Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Darth Vader, Haley Joel Osment as Harry Potter, or Nicolas Cage as Superman (that one really almost happened). No, sometimes Hollywood needs a fresh face up on screen, like Marlon Brando in &quot;A Streetcar Named Desire,&quot; Harrison Ford in &quot;Star Wars&quot; &amp;#151; or Brandon Routh in &quot;Superman Returns.&quot;
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.
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NEW YORK - Alan Alda, the Emmy-winning star of the '70s comedy-drama series "M.A.S.H.," will guest star on 10 episodes of the upcoming season of "The West Wing."   Alda will play a Republican senator with presidential aspirations, Alda's agent, Toni Howard, told The Associated Press.    Martin Sheen plays fictional Democratic President Josiah Bartlet, now serving his second term on the NBC political drama, which returns for its sixth season on Oct...
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LOS ANGELES  - Tony winner Kristin  Chenoweth has landed a major recurring role on NBC's White  House drama "The West Wing."
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Even two-time Oscar winners like Kevin Spacey sometimes need a career makeover.