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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 6, 2005 | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...With the recent success of movies incorporating mathematics, Farley—a professor of mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo who is currently doing research at Harvard—tapped into his professional knowledge and headed west to Hollywood, where he founded a consulting company that helps television and movie producers portray accurate mathematics on screen. [CORRECTION APPENDED...

Author: By Samantha A. Papadakis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Professor Goes Hollywood | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

...article also incorrectly referred to Farley as a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo...

Author: By Samantha A. Papadakis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Professor Goes Hollywood | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

With a thud heard round the movie world, Michael Cimino went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward a firing squad. United Artists took a $44 million bath on the film and within a year was absorbed by rival MGM. Now, in a delicious triple irony, Final Cut, a UA executive's memoir of the debacle, wins raves; Ted Turner agrees to buy MGM/UA; and the studio releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Guess Who Flunked the IQ Test? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish speakers called playas and the English speakers called buffalo wallows. This would be known as the oil business, pronounced locally "thawlbidness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: The Only Game in Town | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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