John Aglialoro

摘要

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's classic novel celebrating rational self-interest and the moral right to keep the fruits of one's own labor, has become a surprise bestseller in the wake of the financial crisis. The 53-year-old book sold more than 450,000 copies in 2009, and now John Aglialoro, the chief executive of fitness equipment maker Cybex, is taking the "objec-tivist" bible to the silver screen. Much as Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ exposed a flat-footed Holly- wood studio culture that shunned a film (and $612 million in box office) it deemed too religious, so might Aglialoro once again expose a system overly rooted in the formulaic.