Word: amirs
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...product was eccentric, so was the peddling, what Artisan co-president Amir Malin calls "guerrilla marketing tactics." Blair Witch's creative team, known as Haxan Films, hustled the movie's clips onto John Pierson's Split Screen cable show, premiered its trailer on the insider Ain't It Cool News website and launched its own site, www.blairwitch.com which, on an eventual investment of $15,000, had racked up 75 million hits by week's end. If Artisan can create an avid audience on cable and in cyberspace, why is Fox or Warner Bros. spending tens of millions advertising...
Regarded, until now, as a Hollywood fringe player, Artisan hopes to define itself as a brash alternative to the established indies. "We don't want to be another Miramax or New Line," says co-president Amir Malin, formerly co-president of October Films. "We want to be involved with hip, off-center movies that skew toward younger audiences between 18 and 35." Artisan, which is run by the triumvirate of Malin, longtime agent Bill Block and Mark Curcio, a former consultant to Artisan's majority backer, Bain Capital, rose in 1997 from the ashes of a firm that held video...
Over the past 50 years, quite a few fascinating discoveries have been made, changing the direction and the assumptions of scientific inquiry. In his book, Probability 1, Amir Aczel, an associate professor of statistics at Bentley College, uses the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe as a frame for the discussion of a selection of these discoveries. He presents, in a clear and easily accessible narrative format, topics ranging from organic chemistry to chaos theory to the recent discovery of extrasolar planets...
...feel relieved that the application is over," said Fulbright applicant Amir Zarrinpar '99, who applied for a grant to study Islamic art and architecture in Turkey...
...corrupt person. Khatami's remarks bring hope not only to the people who voted for him but also to Iranians like me who love God, human beings and Iran. We want to return home and try for peace, freedom and improvement. Now I have good feelings about the future. AMIR HAMI Rotterdam...