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...Coincidental minors--after the whistle, Tyler Burton shoves Pelle into the Raiders net, gets called for cross-checking, Pelle gets unsportsmanlike conduct (for allegedly taking a dive...
...Monfreid was a man who condemned shoes as "cursed things," and his arch and irresistible narrative is appropriately free-spirited. It has textures of sea-roving picaresques from The Odyssey to Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as of the journals of European explorers in Africa and Arabia, from Burton to Livingstone and T.E. Lawrence...
Compared to the gloomy atmosphere of the star-less Golden Globes night earlier in the week, Park City was pretty perky at the prospect of Hollywood returning to business. "We're excited," said Mark Burton, president of production for independent film studio and financier IndieVest, before carving into his veal shank at one of the festival's hotter tickets, a ChefDance dinner at Harry O's nightclub. "There's something on the table. The writers are gonna have to have really strong reasons to turn this down." A film buyer sipping champagne at the bar expressed hope that the prospect...
...cold water on their latest mad pash. A few Hollywood couples stayed hitched--Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 50 years and counting--but such exemplary marriages had less entertainment value than the connubial career of, say, Elizabeth Taylor, eight times wed and divorced, including two volatile turns with Richard Burton. The melodrama of the actress's life equaled anything she endured onscreen...
...view echoed by most others. Early in the day some publicists were optimistic that a deal could be worked out that would allow their clients to attend. Kelly Bush, CEO of ID Public Relations, a firm that represents a long list of nominees including Ellen Page, Casey Affleck, Tim Burton, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker and Kyra Sedgwick, said, "I will certainly encourage our nominees to attend and hope other? publicists do the same." The announcement of the press conference format changed Bush's plans...