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Some cola purists beg to differ. Says Gay Mullins, a retired real estate investor from Seattle who founded the Old Cola Drinkers of America and helped lead the successful protest against the new Coke: "Corn syrup is like lead in my stomach. It doesn't give me the lift. It makes me sleepy." But industry analysts perceive no difference. Says Montgomery Securities' Emanuel Goldman: "Original and Coca-Cola Classic are one and the same thing...
Merchant. Well, any film producer could have that surname. This one was a superb producer, because he got so much on the screen for so little. Distinguished actors worked for him for peanuts, and not from intimidation but for love. His rule was: never haggle, never beg. Charm was sufficient?that and one of his sumptuous Indian dinners...
...what I knew I could get away with, given the fact that I had a limited budget, limited resources. But in terms of having creatures? I could barely get the cantina scene done. I had a couple of really stupid rubber masks. I had to go back and beg another $10,000 so I could go down to a garage and have a friend of mine make some better masks that actually moved their mouths. It took every ounce of energy to create Chewbacca. But then Jurassic Park inspired me. I didn't have to use rubber masks. I could...
...were to step on Wallace Shawn's foot, he would probably beg your pardon. If you were to push ahead of him in line, he might offer to hold your briefcase. He is, in short, the round little guy with the slightly comical face you have seen in such movies as Manhattan and Lovesick, and he almost apologizes for having written Off-Broadway's newest hit, Aunt Dan & Lemon. "At the risk of sounding self-pitying, the project taxed my resources to the limit and sometimes beyond," he says. "It took more brains than I had, and to figure...
...shake violently, you laugh even more violently, you weep, you beg for your mom, there are hands all around you, you sing at the top of your lungs to exorcise the demons while you get tucked into bed, and somehow, your life makes more sense than ever. Add that to a song that’s already about passionate loneliness, and you’ve got your video salvation for midterm studying...