Word: brags
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...find yourself in a money pit, try not to brag about it. It's one thing to wave off the corporate bean counters' attempts at cost control, as a studio source says Columbia president Mark Canton did last winter on Last Action Hero, but Canton and his boss, Sony Pictures chairman Peter Guber, were publicly cavalier about the mega-yen budget. A modestly priced Last Action Hero, Guber said at a conference in March, "would wind up being Last starring Arnold Schwarz." At the time, the line seemed funny...
...fact, try not to brag at all. "Canton was crowing, 'This is the big one; this is the best thing I've done,' " says an executive who has worked with Canton. "Well, he said that once before." That would be a reference to the disastrous Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990, which at the time Canton called "the best movie we've ever made...
...like girls who come on too strong, her brother set her straight. "He said he'd like it if girls came after him. I'll always be grateful to him for saying that." Her classmate Tammy Weisberger notes that like so many boy jocks, girls on her soccer team brag about whom they've slept with -- but with a difference. "The guys say how many girls they did it with. With the girls, it's who they did it with...
...high school," he said. "What's the difference?" Son Billy, who was not among those arrested, was irritated only because his folks wouldn't allow him to discuss the controversy on the Jerry Springer show. Beyond that, he saw no cause for remorse. "My dad used to brag to his friends. All the dads did. When we brought home girls they liked, they'd say, 'Cool,' and tell their buddies," he said. "It's all the moms that are freaking out about this stuff. But that's probably that Freudian thing. You know, penis envy...
Then go to the Red Onion, a well-known club, and brag about your skiing accomplishments. No one will ever know the difference...