"Some of this slashing and burning will result in different movies reaching consumers. Focus Features, for instance, will shift toward crowd-pleasers in the horror and action genres and away from highbrow costume dramas. Mr. Bruckheimer, who parted ways with Disney after two decades, will shift to less family-oriented movies, whether he lands at Warner, Paramount or elsewhere.Still, the upheaval appears to be more about change for change’s sake than about bringing in new strategies to reinvigorate a movie business that has yet to truly compensate for the collapse of its home markets, and particularly of DVD sales, almost 10 years ago. Like most earthquakes, these changes appear to have had no clear trigger.
"It also bears noting that, while binge drinking is increasingly an equal opportunity sport on college campuses, the risks of heavy drinking are especially great for women — not only because drinking increases vulnerability but also because of female physiology. Women’s higher rates of body fat means there is less water to dilute alcohol, and a lower level of a key metabolizing enzyme compounds the problem. A huge proportion of what we drink quickly enters our bloodstreams…'Alcohol is not a women’s issue.'
