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General manager (sometimes abbreviated GM) is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, most commonly in the hospitality industry.
A manager may be responsible for one functional area, but the General Manager is responsible for all areas. Sometimes, most commonly, the term General Manager refers to any executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement. This is often referred to as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. This means that a General Manager usually oversees most or all of the firm's marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business. Frequently, the General Manager is responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit making results for an organization (Sayles 1979).
In many cases, the general manager of a business is given a different formal title or titles. Most corporate managers holding the titles of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or President, for example, are the General Managers of their respective businesses. More rarely, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), or Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) will act as the General Manager of the business. Depending on the company, individuals with the title Managing Director, Regional Vice President, Country Manager, Product Manager, Branch Manager, or Segment Manager may also have general management responsibilities. In large companies many vice presidents will have the title of General Manager when they have the full set of responsibility for the function in that particular area of the business and are often titled Vice President and General Manager.
Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson, later Steven James Williams; December 18, 1964), better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American film and television actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler. Austin wrestled for several well-known wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and most famously, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Described by WWE (formerly the WWF) chairman Vince McMahon as the most profitable wrestler in the company's history, he gained significant mainstream popularity in the WWF during the mid-to-late 1990s as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied McMahon, his boss. This defiance was often shown by Austin flipping off McMahon and incapacitating him with the Stone Cold Stunner, his finishing move. McMahon inducted Austin into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.
Austin held twenty championships throughout his professional wrestling career, and is a six-time WWF Champion as well as the fifth Triple Crown Champion. He was also the winner of the 1996 King of the Ring tournament, as well as the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Royal Rumbles. He was forced to retire from in ring competition in early 2003 due to a series of knee and neck injuries sustained throughout his career. Throughout the rest of 2003 and 2004, he was featured as the Co-General Manager and "Sheriff" of Raw. Since 2005, he has continued to make occasional appearances. In 2011, Steve Austin returned to WWE to host the reality series Tough Enough.
Actors: Keith Collins (actor), Terry Jernigan (actor), Kera O'Bryon (actress), Jack Mulcahy (actor), Keith Collins (producer), Seregon O'Dassey (actress), Ben Leasure (actor), Jaiden Kaine (actor), Bo Keister (actor), Derek Young (actor), Randy Memoli (actor), Danny Pennacchi (actor), Tadashi Mitsui (producer), Tadashi Mitsui (actor), Narielys Márquez Carrasquillo (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Two generations of professional baseball players return for a reunion game at one of their minor league stops en route to the big leagues. Unbeknownst to them, the owner of the club, on his way to a month of rustic living in the high Asian elevations, and desiring a connection to home, arranges an inducement to get the players to reveal novel anecdotes from their past 'on and off the field' baseball lives. The only apparent commonality between the two groups is their success on the ball field, each team providing the locals with the only two minor league championships for the small town nestled in the valley of the Allegheny Mountains.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Anita Nicole Brown (producer), Anita Nicole Brown (actress), Stephon Davis (editor), Stephon Davis (actor), Stephon Davis (producer), Stephon Davis (writer), James McGilbray (producer), James McGilbray (actor), Alan Cliffe (actor), Gary Butler (actor), Thomas Tl Lynch (composer), Karen Posner (actor), Maria Muscatello (actor), Bryan Doud (actor), Stephon J. Davis (director),
Plot: This film takes viewers into the world of subtle racism and prejudice. A middle aged African-American couple goes out to a restaurant to celebrate success and enjoy each others company when they encounter a rude waiter that judges them on the color of their skin as oppose to the content of their character. This power couple is not the type to shiver when facing adversity and discrimination that being so; a lesson in poise and spiritual assertiveness can be observed through the viewing of this film.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Ben McNamara (actor), Albert Goikhman (actor), Darren Vukasinovic (writer), Katerina Mitropoulos (producer), Darren Vukasinovic (producer), Darren Vukasinovic (director), Darren Vukasinovic (producer), Sean Lander (editor), John Cunningham (producer), John Cunningham (actor), Michael Klubertanz (composer), Thomas Petrakos (actor), Will Weatheritt (actor), Andy Rhodes (actor), Lochie Graham (actor),
Plot: Mr. Stowlicker's life of pragmatic predictability begins to unravel with the unexplained arrival of simple plastic balls - an echo from his past - short circuiting his meticulously planned daily routine and forcing him to confront the event that caused his life to become stuck in a holding pattern.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Michael Selditch (producer), Dave Mace (producer), Vincent Rutherford (producer), Christopher Willey (miscellaneous crew), Joni Smith (miscellaneous crew), Rick Weis (editor), Patrick Sayers (editor), James E. Tooley (director), James Fletcher (editor), Heidi Scharfe (editor), James E. Tooley (producer), Brad Katz (editor), Eric Gorlow (miscellaneous crew), Roberta Christensen (producer), Dora Rosas (editor),
Genres: Reality-TV,Actors: Catherine Jacob (actress), Jean Dell (actor), Michael Blakey (producer), Valérie Donzelli (actress), Michèle Moretti (actress), André-Paul Ricci (miscellaneous crew), Jérémie Elkaïm (actor), Marc Berman (actor), Lucia Sanchez (actress), Laurent Lucas (actor), Aladin Reibel (actor), Jean-Claude Jay (actor), Carole Scotta (producer), Tony Arnoux (miscellaneous crew), Françoise Pinkwasser (actress),
Plot: Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels attracted to him from the beginning and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to disappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.
Keywords: female-nudity, forest, hospital, nudity, nurse, question-in-title, question-mark-in-title, syringeActors: Marc Shaiman (composer), Judith M. Brown (miscellaneous crew), Jean Smart (actress), Lily Tomlin (actress), Juanita Moore (actress), Julie Adams (miscellaneous crew), Daniel von Bargen (actor), Bruce Willis (actor), Matthew Perry (actor), Emily Mortimer (actress), Nick Chinlund (actor), Larry King (actor), Gary Weeks (actor), Cory Fleming (miscellaneous crew), Cliff Fleming (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Russ Duritz is a wealthy L.A. image consultant, but as he nears 40, he's cynical, dogless, chickless, estranged from his father, and he has no memories of his childhood. One night he surprises an intruder, who turns out to be a kid, almost 8 years old. There's something oddly familiar about the chubby lad, whose name is Rusty. The boy's identity sparks a journey into Russ's past that the two of them take - to find the key moment that has defined who Russ is. Two long-suffering women look on with disbelief: Russ's secretary, Janet, and his assistant, the lovely Amy, to whom Rusty takes a shine. What, and who, is at the end of this journey?
Keywords: 1960s, 2000s, airport, alternative-history, anchorwoman, bachelor, biplane, birthmark, boxing, boxing-glovesActors: Bob Papenbrook (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Ren Ohsugi (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Hideyo Amamoto (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Yutaka Ikejima (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor),
Plot: Keiko Nadachi is a substitute weather-girl for Michiko Kawai on J-TV. As a way of signing off, she hikes up her skirt and flashes her underwear at the audience. This move makes her an instant cult TV figure and a celebrity. Then Kaori comes back to work and an all-out war erupts between the two of them, with an old high school flame of Keiko's trapped in the middle.
Keywords: attraction, bare-breasts, based-on-comic, bathroom, beating, bubble-bath, caress, clumsiness, cruelty, desireActors: John Randolph (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Vincent Gardenia (actor), Buck Henry (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), James Mason (actor), Curt Gowdy (actor), Bryant Gumbel (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Dick Enberg (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Charles Grodin (actor), Hamilton Camp (actor), Julie Christie (actress), Dyan Cannon (actress),
Plot: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Keywords: accountant, afterlife, american-football, angel, athlete, back-from-the-dead, based-on-play, bicycle-accident, birthday, birthday-cakeActors: Chi Chou (actor), Chung Chow (actor), Chung Ping Geung (actor), Peng-fei Li (actor), Tung Ng (actor), Wui Ng (actor), Yin Tse (actor), Ling Ka (actress), Sangu Tao (actress), Kang Cheng (writer), Wui Ng (director), Ching Lee (actor), Man Lai (actress), Bik-kin Ho (actor), Suet Kong (actress),
Genres: Comedy,