Word: cantonization
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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...
...moment, no surefire female stars; Julia Roberts is on sabbatical, Jodie Foster had a low grosser (Little Man Tate) between two hits (The Silence of the Lambs and Sommersby), and Sharon Stone is not yet bankable. "It's been a long time," says Columbia Pictures chairman Mark Canton, "since women have had any reliable impact on big box office." Decades, to be exact. In the '60s women were the top-billed stars in eight of the yearly box-office champs: West Side Story, Cleopatra, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Hawaii, The Graduate, Funny Girl and Love Story. But since...
...sake of its own survival, Hollywood must believe what Canton says: "If we put women in good roles in good stories, female audiences will come." If Hollywood cinema can explore the full range of emotion and conviction -- which means putting more women on both sides of the camera -- then maybe next year Oscar will really have something to celebrate...
...UNWRITTEN RULE, THE VACANCY IN SWITZERland's seven-member Federal Council, or Cabinet, could be filled only by a Social Democrat from a French-speaking canton. Member of parliament Christiane Brunner, 46, not only met those criteria but also represented a major labor constituency in the metal and watchmaking industries. No matter. Brunner's bid to become the second woman ever to hold Cabinet rank was scuttled by the overwhelmingly male parliament, apparently because of sexual politics...
...CANTON, N.Y.--Mike McCourt and Dan Skene scored goals just 1:25 apart to lift St. Lawrence from a 3-1 deficit in the third period as the Saints and Brown skated to a 3-3 overtime tie in ECAC hockey Saturday night...