Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which makes it a bit more awkward for DreamWorks to spin the news that Spielberg and his two top executives, the married couple of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, are balking at taking on the expanded film production that DreamWorks feels its live-action studio needs in order to thrive. DreamWorks, which released six films in 1998, wants at least to double that output. But Spielberg and his partners will restrict themselves to overseeing no more than half a dozen films a year. Spielberg also will revive his previously dormant production-company banner, Amblin, for some films. His financial stake...
DreamWorks principals say they need to increase production to compete with other studios, which typically release 15 to 20 films a year. They can either make more deals with outside producers or, more likely, hire a high-powered executive to run the live-action division alongside Spielberg's operation. An open question is how involved Katzenberg--who spent 10 years as head of the Disney studio but fared poorly in live action--will be in building the slate. Until now, the area had primarily been Spielberg's domain, while Katzenberg focused on animation and television...
...apocryphal or not, the story does tell you everything you need to know about the President's attitude toward force. He doesn't like it, isn't comfortable with it, and will avoid using it until the last moment. And so last week, when he finally had to take action against Slobodan Milosevic, he first had to make peace with going...
...downing of a U.S. jet shows, the attack on Serbia is easily the riskiest and most complex military action of Clinton's presidency, his biggest roll of the dice. U.S. interests in Kosovo are murky, the coalition is fragile, the terrain unforgiving, and the enemy holds a lot of cards. And if you look closely, you can see the unmistakable damage from impeachment: the public is behind him by a thinner than normal majority as the operation begins. Credibility abroad begins at home...
...best policy, and people with choices almost always make the wrong one. The play opens with two characters in a hospital waiting room. Alice, who works in a strip club, has been hit by a cab, and Dan, a newspaper obit writer, has come to her rescue. The action never seems to leave the trauma ward as the two pair up with each other and, eventually, with Larry, a straitlaced doctor, and Anna, a stylish photographer...