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...graphic "Oscar by the Numbers," which listed some big-shot actors turned Oscar-winning directors, omitted Clint Eastwood's Best Director Oscar for Unforgiven, which also nabbed a Best Picture Award in 1992. Eastwood's fine directing deserved consideration. FONTIP KLAIDONPLONG Bangkok...
...most powerful newspaperman in America. The veiled fiction about the columnist didn't seem to ruffle him. "I don't fool with the Ernest Lehmans of the world," Winchell supposedly said. "I go after the Westbrook Peglers [a right-wing journalist]." Five years later, Lehman was a big-shot screenwriter ("Executive Suite," "Sabrina") and reluctant to have the romanette-a-clef turned into a movie. But the indie-prod outfit Hecht-Lancaster was a comer - "Trapeze," with Burt Lancaster and Curtis, had hit it big, and "Marty" would win the top Oscar in 1956 - so when they promised Lehman...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced that the President would be making a series of speeches this week, it looked like the stagecraft that signals a big U-turn. Advisers had been whispering about making a "recalibration," in which the President would tighten up the message about progress in the war overseas and safety at home. Was this it? Yes, but by using big-shot Rice, the White House sent too strong a signal--sometimes even the recalibration needs recalibration. The more nuanced shift of this week, according to an adviser, is "setting things right and putting them...
...rehearsals, we were visited by a big-shot TV director who was going to give us a break on the national airwaves. We'd been fighting in our garage about how our own songs should end, or start or even what middles they should have when this TV director was coming to see us, so we played him two Ramones songs when he arrived and told him they were ours, and he thought this was amazing. And then when we went on the TV show, we played them two of our own songs, and they didn't notice. So that...
That leader was none other than 31-year old German DJ Timo Maas, the newest darling of the dance music scene. But his success was far from assured-faced with rain-soaked clubbers sporting high expectations (other weekend visitors to Boston included big-shot DJs Laurent Garnier and Judge Jules), Maas had to work to win the favor of his Lansdowne Street crowd...