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...exhibitors, friends, strangers on the street and the occasional Negro businessman. And when the film was ready, he peddled it theater door to theater door. (Sometimes he got help from his wife, the actress Alice B. Russell. She appeared in many of his films and, under the name A. Burton Russell, was often listed as producer...
...successful he must tell Castro to relinquish dictatorial power at once. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer insists that Carter should take a tough message directly to Castro "to stop the repression and to stop the imprisonments, to bring freedom to the people of Cuba." As for the Helms-Burton Act, the embargo Carter has pushed to have abolished since leaving the White House, Bush is standing behind it as a "moral statement." Meanwhile, the State Department will unveil their revised policy on Cuba on May 20 when President Bush visits Miami to commemorate Cuba's independence from Spain...
According to Arad, the maturation of "comic-book geeks" into powerful artists like Singer, Ang Lee (who will direct The Hulk) and Tim Burton (who directed the first two Batmans and is penciled in for Superman) has coincided with the technological developments. "The last four years' advances have made all the difference," he says. The Britain-based special-effects house Framestore, which worked on Blade 2, says that the film required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want...
Hill refused to characterize Burton’s actions as stealing, maintaining that the buttons were free for all to take—and Burton was acquitted...
...February 2000, Hill took center stage as the star “witness” in the bizarre impeachment proceedings against Undergraduate Council Vice President John A. Burton ’01, who had been accused by some council members of stealing an entire box of gay pride buttons from the BGLTSA and illegally using them for his council campaign...