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...visiting Hollywood élite, and an embarrassing one for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (bafta) hosting its annual version of the Oscars back in February 2002. But the gaffe was also sort of charming, a reminder of what distinguishes the British film industry from its bigger, glossier American counterpart. These days, though, the Orange British Academy Film Awards, known as the baftas, want to be taken seriously. This year's ceremony marks the awards' 60th anniversary and the academy is determined that the evening's only bubbles will come from the champagne. For the first time...
...drive to draw more women hasn't generated a blizzard of downhillers, resort executives admit. Rather, as marketing director Myra Foster at Stratton Mountain Resort in Vermont points out, "it's more of an incremental push" complemented by initiatives like investing in bigger, faster chairlifts; refurbishing lodges and condos; and adding more luxurious amenities...
...telephone, greets people at the door, takes their coats and fetches their drinks. He husbands his money for his family, and has grown more cautious over the years. He invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your Horn in "cattle that froze to death in Montana." A far bigger error: selling the TV rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become a series?a bad guess that Simon says may have cost him as much as $20 million. Later on he bought the Eugene O'Neill Theater...
...TIME: People are anticipating a much bigger division in style, if not in substance, when you're facing Gordon Brown...
...week when we so badly needed a clear-cut plan for Iraq. A poll showed that only 29% of Americans believed that the President had a plan, and 2l% that the Democrats had one. Iraq's President al-Maliki came up with a plan: give Iraqi soldiers more and bigger weapons. But in both the Times and the Washington Post, an American soldier made the point that the war would continue to go badly as long as the Iraqis on our side keep supporting and supplying the Iraqis we are fighting...