There Will Be No Kanye West Jetsons Movie

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When Kanye West unleashed his grandiose Twitter tirade on Wednesday, he announced that he would become "creative director" of The Jetsons movie.

"I was just discussing becoming the creative director for the Jetson movie and someone on the call yelled out.. you should do a Jetsons tour!" he declared, launching further tweets-of-consciousness about fame, art, fashion and revamping the education system with director Spike Jonze, among other ideas.

As for the Jetsons, that was news to the project's producers, Denise DiNovi and Donald De Line.

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"There is no such thing on a movie,? Di Novi responded in an interview with New York magazine's Vulture site. "There?s an art director and a production designer." That said, they did indeed talk to West this week, and intend to involve him in the film somehow. (Just not as creative director.)

The Warner Bros. project remains in its very early stages, and, after years in development, the Di Novi-De Line duo is looking to hire a screenwriter and a director. As it happens, West is an ardent fan of the cartoon classic and has been attempting to become a part of the live-action movie version for two years.

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So on Wednesday, Warners connected West with the producers via teleconference to talk shop for 10 minutes.

It was "preliminary and exploratory and introductory," said De Line. "We explained how our process usually works, that usually there?s a screenplay, and a director in place first, and that this was ? a nontraditional way, but then, he's a guy with his fingers in a lot of pies, and who likes to work out-of-the-box."

DiNovi said she was impressed by West's futuristic vision.

?I don?t know him; until yesterday, I?d never talked to him in my life," she said. "I don?t know what else to tell you. He?s not the creative director on the movie, but I loved his passion for The Jetsons. He gets the whole thing about the future that never was. He sees us living on a precipice of technology -- cameras in your eye, your mind as a remote control to fire lasers -- and wonders how things are going to break, for good or for bad."

West's representative did not immediately respond to THR's requests for comment.

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UK's Hague arrives in Myanmar to urge reforms (AP)

YANGON, Myanmar ? Britain's William Hague has arrived in Myanmar for the first visit by a U.K. foreign secretary since 1955 ? another sign of the Southeast Asian nation's warming relations with the West.

A British diplomat in Yangon says Hague arrived in the capital Naypyitaw on Thursday morning to hold talks with President Thein Sein and government ministers. He will later meet with opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon.

Hague's visit follows a trip by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in November.

Western nations have been offering cautious support for reforms in the military-dominated country that have led to the release of some political prisoners and seen Suu Kyi's party rejoin the country's political process.

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Who Will Handle Facebook?s Coming IPO?

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Big banks are vying to win the coveted spot as the lead investment bank to handle Facebook?s impending 2012 IPO. Venture capitalists and bankers say that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Group are the two front runners for the title.

The Wall Street Journal cited a source close to the matter who says that Facebook plans to file its IPO paperwork in early 2012, meaning that a bank decision could be made soon. A different source told the WSJ that some bankers were waiting by the phone over the holidays hoping to receive news that they would be involved in the initial public offering in some way.

The sale of Facebook?s stock is expected to bring in about $10 billion. Dealogic says that the average fee charged for sales of that size is about 2.2%, which translates to $220 million, though Facebook?s stature could enable them to negotiate a better deal. Both Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and Goldman Sachs have negotiated large deals in the past that prove their abilities. Dealogic reports that both firms are jockeying for the claim to underwrite the most U.S. IPO?s in 2011. Facebook, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs all declined to comment.

With the positive Facebook catalyst for IPOs this year, here?s how the following banks are reacting to the news:

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS): GS shares recently traded at $93.97, down $1.39, or 1.46%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $84.27 to $175.34. Volume today was 2,447,917 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 7,764,980 shares. The company?s trailing P/E is 14.29, while trailing earnings are $6.57 per share.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS): MS shares recently traded at $15.75, down $0.33, or 2.05%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $11.58 to $31.04. Volume today was 7,367,610 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 35,215,400 shares. The company?s trailing P/E is 10.33, while trailing earnings are $1.53 per share.

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC): BAC shares recently traded at $5.73, down $0.07, or 1.21%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $4.92 to $15.31. Volume today was 94,992,597 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 261,203,000 shares. The company?s trailing earnings are $-0.31 per share.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM): JPM shares recently traded at $34.62, down $0.11, or 0.32%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $27.85 to $48.36. Volume today was 11,024,894 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 43,059,700 shares. The company?s trailing P/E is 7.38, while trailing earnings are $4.69 per share.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC): WFC shares recently traded at $28.30, down $0.13, or 0.46%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $22.58 to $34.25. Volume today was 8,811,888 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 36,545,900 shares. The company?s trailing P/E is 10.48, while trailing earnings are $2.70 per share.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS): MS shares recently traded at $15.75, down $0.33, or 2.05%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $11.58 to $31.04. Volume today was 7,367,610 shares versus a 3-month average volume of 35,215,400 shares. The company?s trailing P/E is 10.33, while trailing earnings are $1.53 per share.

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Fantasy Baseball 2012: Top 25 Values for Your Upcoming Fantasy Draft

In approximately six weeks, pitchers and catchers will report to spring training.? This means that for all of you planning on playing fantasy baseball this coming season, the time to start scouting for your eventual draft is now.? From your first-round pick to that sleeper you're convinced will have a breakout year, this is the time to look at every team and see which players could put your team over the top.

As a veteran manager in the world of fantasy baseball, I can tell you all with a straight face that some of your team's best players will not be found in the first couple of rounds, but in the middle ones.? I remember in a draft I participated in last year, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels (pictured) was not taken until the fourth round.?

Sure enough, Hamels proved to be a great pitching option as his record was a modest 14-9, but his 2.79 ERA and 0.99 WHIP made him one of the best steals, or "values," of the 2011 fantasy season.

Hamels is just one great value who could be available come draft time.? Seeing as how I've been giving you loyal readers some fantasy advice for the past couple of weeks now, here are the top 25 value players to keep an eye on in your upcoming draft.

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Most Florida schools earn top grades

Published: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.

For the second straight year, more Florida high schools earned higher grades, according to results released by the state today.

Statewide, 78 percent of high schools earned an A or B grade for the 2010-11 school year, up from 71 percent the previous year. The number of failing schools dropped from 14 percent to just 6 percent.

"It's great to see more of Florida's high schools trending upward," said Gov. Rick Scott in a news statement. "Education is critical to improving lives, preparing students for a job and attracting employers."

But locally many high schools continue to struggle with nine schools earning lower grades and only four schools ranking higher than last year.

In Sarasota County, both Venice and Booker high school dropped to B grades. Suncoast Polytechnical, which has yet to graduate a senior class, rose to an A.

In Manatee County, Bayshore High School fell one letter grade to a C and Palmetto High School dropped to a D. There was better news for Manatee High School, which earned a A grade for the second time in three years. Southeast High rose two letter grades to a B.

But results were disappointing in Charlotte County where all three district high schools dropped by one letter grade. Charlotte and Lemon Bay high schools both fell to a B while Port Charlotte High School dropped to a C.

Half of a school's grade is based on student scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The remainder depends on the school's graduation rate, improvement by lower-performing students, and how many students take and pass tougher courses such as Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and dual enrollment classes.

The change in the formula that was introduced last year led schools to push thousands of students into tougher courses.

This year state officials have tweaked the formula so there is less weighting for participation and more for actual achievement.

In addition to a school's reputation, a good grade means extra money for schools. Those that earn an A or improve by at least one letter grade earn recognition funds of about $70 per student.

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Bill Mann's Canada: Big Gateway pipeline hearings starting in B.C.

By Bill Mann, MarketWatch

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (MarketWatch) -- Lights, cameras ... testimony. What?s being called ?the mother of all public hearings? begins next week in tiny Kitimat, B.C., over Enbridge?s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta?s oil fields to tiny Kitimat, where an oil- tanker terminal would be built to get all that crude to foreign markets ? mostly China.

With the southward-bound Keystone-XL pipeline already very much in the public spotlight, this Canada-only pipeline is also causing major battle lines ? and media strategies ? to be drawn. Over 4,000 individuals and groups have signed up to testify in two dozen planned hearings across the province. Major Enbridge supporters have just come forth this week ? four major oil companies with oil-sands operations.

Prior to this week, only giant Chinese energy company Sinopec had revealed financial support to Enbridge. Canada?s National Energy Board released documents this week also revealing that Cenovus Energy Inc. /quotes/zigman/47102 CA:CVE +0.26% , Suncor Energy /quotes/zigman/43712 CA:SU +0.03% ?, Nexen Inc. /quotes/zigman/22967 CA:NXY +0.29% , and Total E&P Canada have filed paperwork outlining their support to the federal review panel.

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Each has signed up as a ?funding participant,? joining the others in buying some of the 10 units that make up a $100-million fund Enbridge (ENB-T37.30-0.45-1.19%) sold in 2007 and 2008. The money was used to fund pre-construction development and engineering of the big pipeline project.

The supporters all say Enbridge?s /quotes/zigman/20610 CA:ENB +1.58% $5.5 billion Northern Gateway project is needed to export Alberta?s growing oilsands production to new markets, largely in the Pacific basin.

Keystone, of course, has become a political football being kicked around between Barack Obama and Congress. The pipeline game has also moved north. But Gateway, unlike Keystone, is a Canadian decision, although plenty of U.S.-based environmental activists, fresh from getting Keystone to relocate in Nebraska and possibly killed, will be at the Canadian hearings.

Suncor says Northern Gateway is a critical piece of infrastructure for Canadian oil producers.

All that crude has to go somewhere, and building the 600-mile Northern Gateway through pristine B.C. forests is arguably the best way, despite the risks of spills (which Enbridge, of course, is minimizing). Many First Nations tribes in B.C. strongly oppose Northern Gateway, although a few have signed on with Enbridge as equity partners.

B.C. residents support pipeline?

Enbridge has commissioned a new poll showing that B.C. residents now support the pipeline by 48-32. The Ipsos-Reid survey released this week counters the perception that an overwhelming majority of British Columbians are against the megaproject, says Enbridge spokesman Paul Stanway.

Northern Gateway critics have long cited another poll two years ago that suggested broad public opposition as a key factor in the campaign to block the project.

But here?s more pro-pipeline ammo: If Northern Gateway doesn?t go ahead, a recent analysis commissioned by the Alberta government says it could cost Canadian oil producers $72 billion over nine years.

It?s obvious where China is placing its bets: Just this week, Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. triggered an option on a 2009 deal with CNPC subsidiary PetroChina, so the Chinese government oil giant is not just a shareholder but also the owner and operator of Alberta?s MacKay River oil sands project, to open in 2014. In December, Sinopec closed a $2.2 billion deal for Daylight Energy Ltd.

Chinese own the companies

So Chinese firms are no longer just buying oilsands stakes, they?re buying whole operations; it?s a new phase of China?s step-by-step Canada strategy. The state-owned Chinese companies will actually run these companies. And China doesn?t want to lose any part of that $72 billion cited by Alberta?s provincial government. .

As the Toronto Globe and Mail puts it, China?s all-in approach ?will change not just the oil patch but Canada?s foreign policy. A game of international energy politics is afoot in Canada?s West.?

The Chinese are placing their bets on B.C., it?s becoming obvious, rather than Keystone, as the destination for their Alberta oil.

The gavel comes down and the show starts Tuesday in tiny Kitimat, which hasn?t had this much attention since....well, since never.

Correction: In my recent column on Canadian investors being saved from losses in the MF Global fiasco by a safety net, I implied that the Canadian Investor Protection Fund, which provided that net, was run by the Canadian government. Read the corrected column .

Helpful CIPF senior public affairs specialist Paul Lalonde e-mails this clarification: ?CIPF is not a government program; it?s an industry program to protect clients of IIROC-regulated firms only.? That?s the privately operated Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. Thanks, Paul.

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Bill Mann is a MarketWatch columnist, based in Port Townsend, Wash.

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Rick Santorum is as Crazy as a Cinema Henry VIII, or a Fox (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | The dropped pizza crust hit the table with a "bang" loud as a pistol shot. Rick Santorum, who had just finished consuming the soft center of the slice, looked on imperiously, every bit as self-satisfied and privileged as Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. It was the same kind of moment when Laughton nonchalantly throws a turkey bone over his shoulder in The Private Life of Henry VIII. It was startling not only for its chutzpah but its vulgarity.

Santorum brushed the detritus of pizza crust dust off of his finger tips before grabbing another slice.

It was at the moment I recovered from the shock of the sound and sight of a former senator casually dropping a large pizza crust from a height parallel to his mouth without any regard to propriety that I was convinced Santorum was crazy. As crazy as those men (and occasionally, women) who, each four years, submit themselves to the absurd marathon that is the race for the presidency.

Steady Eddie

I met Santorum when I attended a campaign event at his Bedford, N.H., headquarters in early December. There were perhaps 30 people in attendance, nearly a third of whom were small children, as the theme was a Toys for Tots gift drive. Many of the audience seemed to be staffers.

Santorum lagged behind in the polls not only in New Hampshire, but in Iowa. A deeply religious social conservative, the press was reporting that a major evangelical Christian political committee Santorum had courted was going to endorse Newt Gingrich.

It all seemed kind of hopeless. The spaces on the sign-up sheets for the phone banks were mostly blank for the entire month of December. The only press was a freelance photographer. Yet, Rick Santorum soldiered on.

Santorum told the crowd that despite lagging in the polls, the GOP voters -- like Goldilocks -- would eventually find out that he was "just right." Here was a man with designs on the most powerful office in the world comparing himself to Baby Bear in a children's fairy tale.

After the speech, the pizza arrived and I broke bread with Santorum. And was soon shocked by his insouciance.

This guy is crazy, I thought, and soon left.

His strong second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, where he finished just eight votes behind Mitt Romney, proved that Rick Santorum is crazy. Crazy like a fox.

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Iowa Caucuses: Welcome to the 'Big Sifter' (Time.com)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a campaign rally at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, on Jan. 2, 2012

Start with the numbers: Seven candidates. Eight months of competition. Thirteen debates. Thirteen million dollars in mostly vicious and anonymous TV attack ads. A final day with 23 events in a state of 3 million people. The simple goal: persuade some small fraction, maybe 5% of Iowa adults, or 120,000 souls, to give up their Tuesday night, sit in a room for an hour and help determine the fate of a fearful nation. Get just a fraction of that fraction, maybe 30,000, to support you, and you carry the day.

One could say late Monday night that the Republican presidential primary campaign in Iowa was unfolding as expected as it entered its final hours. But that would insult the process, which is so absurd, so dependent on chance, theater and the whim of the indecisive as to defy expectation. Who would have guessed that in the final days not a single candidate would have launched a sustained attack on the yearlong front runner, Mitt Romney, who is disliked by an alarming portion of his own party? Who could have foreseen that a 76-year-old obstetrician, Ron Paul, would be drawing the youngest, rowdiest crowds? Who would have predicted that the one candidate who never budged in the polls, Rick Santorum, would be surging at the wire? That the final pre-caucus polling would show a total pileup at the front of the pack?

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It?s O.K. to admit that none of it makes sense. The world?s richest, most advanced democracy has randomly endowed a few thousand residents of a state known mainly for corn, hogs and gas stations called Kum & Go with the responsibility of screening its prospective leaders. A thousand or so journalists fly in from New York City, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles to keep score and promote the proceedings. The crowds turn out at dawn in the frigid cold, with homemade signs and questions about Iran and immigration. Everyone keeps a straight face. They put up with the television spots. They get used to the lawn signs. Because that?s how it is. ?Iowa is the big sifter,? explained Jess Paul, a retired Republican in a town called Clinton, who last week turned out to see Romney speak, even though like most caucusgoers, he had not yet decided on a candidate. ?It should take out the bigger hunks of chaff.?

As a candidate certain to sift through, Romney spent his final days recounting the lyrics of patriotic poems and songs, and then singing his own odes to the horribleness of the sitting President. It was as rational a response as any. He compared Barack Obama to Marie Antoinette, accused him of not understanding his country and declared the election a battle between opportunity and entitlement, between a society of ambition and one of envy. Something had changed in Romney from?four years earlier, the last time he was in the state, when he lost to Mike Huckabee like Goliath lost to David: too big, too slow and unprepared for the agility of his foe. The stress did not show so much on Romney?s face. He no longer tried so hard to impress. He knew what he was doing, on a day that brought him to Davenport, Dubuque, Marion, Cedar Rapids and Clive. By most accounts, he was winning.

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Romney?s closest contender in the polls, the good doctor Representative Paul, a Texas septuagenarian with a runner?s physique, operated in a different sphere, less worried about Obama or victory than the crop of libertarian followers he was sowing in the heartland. He sold himself literally as ?the One,? a savior promising a new era of gold coins, world peace and legal weed. ?It?s the youth that likes him,? said Daniel Solon, 19, a student at Hawkeye Community College. ?They?re the future. The old ways have shown that they?re faltering. And the young people will grab that torch for liberty and carry it forward.? At his rallies, the crowds chanted ?Ron! Paul!? like a rock audience demanding an encore. ?Preach it,? another enthusiast demanded of the candidate. ?Tomorrow is a very important day. Small numbers but very big message,? the candidate told his crowd. ?You carry a lot of weight in this state. Send a message on which way we?re going.?

Paul?s campaign manager and son-in-law, Jesse Benton, maintained that the campaign had a clear plan to win the nomination by building momentum through Florida. It was the sort of professional optimism that campaign operatives are paid to deliver, even if it was unhinged from reality. To Paul?s credit, he did not seem to believe it himself. Asked in an interview with ABC News if he saw himself in the Oval Office, Paul responded plainly, ?Not really, but I think it?s a possibility.? A ?slim? possibility, he continued, which was probably too generous.

The next in the polling pecking order, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, spent his day touring five towns in central Iowa. In recent days, his rise had attracted the first notice of his rivals. Paul called him ?very liberal.? Romney dinged him as a ?Washington insider.? And Texas Governor Rick Perry accused him of being a ?serial earmarker.? But such attacks were a sign of Santorum?s strength, not weakness, especially since it brought the press out to places like Urbandale and forced Iowa?s social-conservative throng into yet another reconsideration of their vote, likely in his direction.

(MORE: Santorum?s Last-Minute Surge)

To raise the stakes, and deepen the oddity of the exercise, Santorum introduced a special guest at his events, Jim Bob Duggar, the father of 19 children by his wife and the star of a basic-cable show documenting their life. Duggar, moving seamlessly from one reality show into another, told the crowds that Santorum was imperfect but that every candidate is ?unless it?s Jesus Christ.? This passed, it was agreed, as a perfectly effective message, given the circumstances.

The other candidates on the undercard, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann and Perry, did their best to keep their heads high, even though many of the caucusgoers who once supported them in the polls had already bolted from the altar for another suitor. If there was chaff to be weeded out, it was this bottom group that feared the sieve the most. To project confidence, Perry released a schedule of planned events later this week in South Carolina, where Romney has a history of struggle. Gingrich projected into New Hampshire, where he promised to do a better job of attacking Romney. ?I don?t think I am going to win Iowa,? he said, only a few weeks after predicting that the polls would hold and he would win the whole thing. Bachmann trundled on with barely a skeleton of a campaign remaining. Once the darling of the state?s Republican activists, Bachmann?s most pressing task after Tuesday?s caucuses will almost certainly have more to do with filing for re-election in Minnesota than taking on Obama in Ohio. Meanwhile, Jon Huntsman, the seventh candidate, lay in wait in New Hampshire with the hope that next week?s winnowing would be a bit more kind to the underdogs.

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Amid all the din and long-distance driving, one thing was certain: by Wednesday, it would be over. The circus tents would fold and the performers would retool their acts for new audiences in climates less concerned with corn and soybean. That?s the way it goes in America. That?s the way the most powerful nation picks its most powerful leader. Don?t set aside the silliness. Don?t ignore the details. Sure, it doesn?t make sense. No one would design a process like this, least of all the Founding Fathers, who are so in vogue at the moment. But there remains a wonder to it all. And now we must wait to see what happens.

? With reporting by Alex Altman / Urbandale; Katy Steinmetz / Des Moines

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