Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seasons, Christopher Roma-Agvanian `02 has slung a bag of Cokes over his shoulder, wrapped a money apron around his waist and walked up and down the bleachers of Fenway Park. This spring, his "boy" from their Boston Latin days and current PfoHo roommate Sean H. Ryan `02 joined him to holler and hustle the crowd...
Davis didn't invent the JV, but he was one of the first to show how lucrative it can be. Arista's 1989 investment in hip-hop-heavy Bad Boy Records, run by Puff Daddy, and its 1994 investment in R.-and-B. powerhouse LaFace Records, run by L.A. Reid and the producer Babyface, were mere chicken feed: about $3 million apiece. Last year LaFace chalked up sales of more than $75 million and Bad Boy of about $35 million. "Rather than buy companies and pay multiples," says Davis, "we started from scratch and made a relatively modest investment...
...come Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's easy-to-take Mifune, about a young businessman who goes home to settle his late father's estate; Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive, set in Namibia and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh; and, opening next week, the first American Dogme film, julien donkey-boy, by genius nasty boy Harmony Korine...
...call to disarm, to strip away the veneer, to walk without crutches supplied by Industrial Light & Magic. Unabashedly reactionary, Dogme loves innocence; it aims for a primitive purity. "Filmmakers and filmgoers are yearning for something else," says cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, who shot The Celebration, Mifune and julien donkey-boy. "But not necessarily something new. A revival. A renaissance. A refocusing on the story. The nakedness and simplicity of Dogme has put us back in touch with the essentials of filmmaking...
...stepgrandparent needs to be patient in building a relationship with a child, and Klopfer recommends finding a special role. Cheryl and Robert Jones of Oklahoma City are recent stepgrandparents of two boys, five and seven. "It had been a long time since I was around children," Cheryl admits, "and there's a lot about dealing with them that I had forgotten." Since the elder boy is interested in computers, she quizzes colleagues at work about the best websites for kids. When he visits her, they explore the sites together...