cut (STOP SUDDENLY), segue, blue chip

JPMorgan Chase veteran David Shaheen has been appointed to succeed film-finance icon John Miller as head of the blue-chip firm's entertainment banking group, with Mr. Miller to segue into a consulting role in 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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JP ".......有關美國大導演 Steven Spielberg的報導，在第十二版上方 Director's Cut, or How Did Hollywood Lose Steven Spielberg? by Brook Barnes.即使像Spielberg這樣具有龐大票房能力的大導演，在美國這樣的資本主義國家裡，仍然有志難伸，他的談判籌碼仍然不敵那些大資本家。 這位美國國寶級的導演，看來就要被印度的大商人挖走...."



這 cut 是雙關字 除了一般砍預算等意思

Fifth Third Bancorp, a Cincinnati-based bank, said it would cut its dividend by more than half and raise about $2 billion by selling convertible preferred stock and certain "noncore businesses."

之外 還有

cut (STOP SUDDENLY)
verb [I or T] cutting, cut, cut
to stop or interrupt something:
to cut an engine/a motor
"Cut! (= Stop filming!)" shouted the director.


blue chip　【株】優良株（の） （blue-chip stock）.

also blue-chip·per n.

1. A stock that sells at a high price because of public confidence in its long record of steady earnings.
2. An extremely valuable asset or property.
3. Games. A blue poker chip of high value.

blue chip　【株】優良株（の） （blue-chip stock）.



segue

intr.v., -gued, -gue·ing, -gues.

1. Music. To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another.
2. To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: “Daylight segued into dusk” (Susan Dworski).

n.
An act or instance of segueing.

[From Italian, there follows, third-person sing. present tense of seguire, to follow, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from Latin sequī.]

se・gue

━━ vi. 【楽】間をおかず演奏する.