Word: broking
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...studios' property, and anyone who dared protest - Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, for example - was suspended, effectively blacklisted for a time. The first SAG-studio contract was signed in 1937, but it was only following the Supreme Court's 1948 anti-trust decision against Paramount Studios, which broke the studio monopoly, that actors were set loose. Two years later, Jimmy Stewart negotiated his way into a percentage of Winchester '73's box office grosses - or points on the back end, a practice which remains in place to this day. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...Baghdad press conference during the last official visit of his term. In many Eastern cultures, hurling a shoe at someone is a grave insult. Iraqi TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi's decision to fling his size 10s made him an instant hero to many, although some noted that it broke Arab rules of hospitality, not to mention the journalists' code of objectivity. But the sentiment behind the shoe leather was widely shared: Iraq may have more of a future now than it did under Saddam, but Iraqis are never going to be grateful for having been invaded. (It's unclear...
...Wrestler doesn't open till Wednesday, and already Mickey Rourke has won Best Actor from the Boston and Washington, D.C., critics groups and earned a Golden Globe nomination in that category. His performance as a broke, broken-down fighter stoked Wrestler-mania at the Toronto Film Festival and, before that, in Venice, where the film had its world premiere (winning the top prize). That was back in early September, when the Los Angeles Times headlined the question: "Will The Wrestler get hold of an Oscar for Mickey Rourke...
...hold house parties to continue their political involvement—Aniskoff said that 4,000 such parties were held this weekend. Nuni invited community organizers and volunteers from around the area, including several people from the grassroots initiative Cambridge-Somerville for Change, though few undergraduates attended. The conference broke into action groups to discuss issues ranging from “Rebuilding the Democratic Party” to “Student and Youth Organizing.” Though Nuni said the action groups did not develop concrete ideas as he had hoped they would, he said that the continued discussion...
...Although incidents of vandalism and clashes with police by protesting students have been limited so far - including ugly scuffling after youths showing support for demonstrators in Greece broke out on the Champs Elysées Friday night - Interior Minister Michèl Alliot-Marie has said authorities are "following the movement with attention." Alliot-Marie noted "the climate is tense, (and) certain medium-sized cities have suffered damage" to structures during demonstrations...