Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days of the early seventies to the big-budget, star-vehicle, action-adventure, special-effects nineties. A country of 260 million people has few pieces of shared experience, and it is somehow comforting to participate in one that doesn't involve an assassination or a verdict or a car chase but the simple act of viewing a film which everyone has seen, at a time when everyone is seeing it again--when the first-night shows sell out a week in advance and the lines run out the doors of the theatre. I used to wish that I had been...
...title chase and to have it come down to the last weekend," Gelman said. "I'm pumped!" Princeton 34 Harvard 79 Penn 60 Harvard...
Harvey Weinstein has his own definition of independence. "It has always meant independent of the seven major studios," says Harvey, "and that's how we operate. Disney is our big daddy or rich uncle. Basically, they're our bank. You can say Disney or you can say Chase Manhattan." Miramax has the freedom to run its business so long as it works within budget guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They...
...grudge toward the guy who later won an Oscar in the role he sought, because he's starring in TIM HUTTON's feature directorial debut, Digging to China. "Being my first time," says Hutton, "it was great working with an actor who had just directed." (Bacon directed Losing Chase in 1996.) In China, Bacon plays a mentally disabled man who forms an odd friendship with a girl played by EVAN WOOD. He gives Hutton high marks--but future directors beware. "I'm less tolerant of directors than I used to be," he says. "I now know that it's hard...
Ever since 1847, when Oliver Chase began making candy shells with little messages inside, the New England Confectionery Company--Necco to most of us--has been pumping out sweet little hearts for Valentine's Day lovers...