Hiltron Communications, a globally active satellite system integrator, manufacturer and distributor, has added Jean-Luc George van Eeckhoutte to its management team as sales manager for the EMEA region. He brings nearly 20 years of experience to the role and joins from RF technology company Spinner GmbH. Following his early years in defense electronics, he joined Satlynx in 2001 where he was active in network operations and later as solutions architecture manager. From there he advanced through engineering roles at Siemens Space and Newtec to WORK Microwave where he was director of business development/regional sales director from 2014 to 2018….
Review: Director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice”
Decades before he hosted "The Apprentice," Donald Trump was … an apprentice.
His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York power broker in the '70s and '80s after famously serving as a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Trump-Cohn connection is well known. But in "The Apprentice," his provocative if not quite shocking, entertaining if not quite illuminating, impeccably acted and inherently controversial film, Ali Abbasi takes it farther.
It's this relationship, posits the Danish Iranian director, that essentially made a young real estate heir — inexperienced but wildly ambitious — into the man who would become the 45th U.S. president, smashing the norms of American politics along the way.
Speaking of unlikely paths: The mere route of "The Apprentice" to the big screen is fodder for its own movie.
Written by Gabriel Sherman and starring an ingeniously cast trio of Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, the film failed to get picked up at Cannes in May. That was surely due at least in part to a cease and desist letter from Trump lawyers.
Trump's campaign spokesman called the movie "pure fiction" (the filmmakers call their script "fact-based"). One of the film's investors — Trump supporter Dan Snyder, former owner of the Washington Commanders — saw it and wanted out. It was only weeks ago that Briarcliff Entertainment announced it would open "The Apprentice" this Friday — less than four weeks before the U.S. election.
So, what kind of movie do we have here?
Contrary to some descriptions, Abbasi says his film isn't a biopic at all, but a look at a relationship — and at a system that's about winning at any cost.
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