Word: australians
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Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...
...debut, but filmmakers at Cannes are following the Sundance example and cutting economical deals for small "classic" films at a fraction of the cost of the average big-budget Hollywood production. While Dustin Hoffman and his production company, Punch Productions, have announced a deal with the Australian production company Village Roadshow to finance and distribute small dramatic films for about $10 million apiece, action producer Joel Silver is teaming up with "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner to make low-budget action films in the $10 million range. Setting the abstemious tone at the opening Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances...
...actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian swings. And over 80% of those responding are under age 25. They are the future of arena revivals, the harvest of souls still waiting to be taken--by one Graham or another...
Jackson's New Age philosophy, a mixture of American Indian and Zen Buddhism, has kept the superstars and scrubs, the Croatian and the Australian, the young and the old, the sane and Rodman playing in harmony. But even the coach is hard put to explain just how this team will win more games than any N.B.A. team before it. "A number of times this year," he says, "I'd tell my coaches, 'Pinch me, I don't know if this is a dream or not.' It was like we were doing this with mirrors and smoke. But the reality...
Okay, so this is the first year of the Crimson Oscar preview, and what happens? A small Australian film about a pig, and a small Italian film about a letter carrier are nominated for best picture. Most of the nominations are for non-mainstream films. Several high-profile films did not receive major nominations (e.g., "Get Shorty," "The American President;" except for best-female actor nominations, "Casino" and "Bridges of Madison County" were ignored). All five director and all ten supporting-actor/female actor candidates are first-time nominees. In recent years, the Academy Awards have been dominated...