Word: columbia
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...jury's verdict troubling [NOTEBOOK, July 20]. The verdict had nothing to do with Warner's "reneging on a deal to remake Pinocchio." There was never any such "deal." Warner was held liable for intentionally interfering with Mr. Coppola's efforts to make Pinocchio for a different studio (Columbia Pictures). In addition, you ignored the foreign grosses and income for Mr. Coppola's films, which would more than double the figures you quoted...
...apart in their thinking, they welcomed the chance to put the past behind them and help their countries build fresh ties. "I am not naive about Iran, but I think it is important to understand one another's feelings," says Rosen, 54, director of public affairs for Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. "I don't have to forgive and forget. But we are trying to restart this relationship, and this is an important beginning." Agrees Abdi, 42, a columnist for Salam, a Tehran newspaper: "The aim is to contribute to a better understanding and promote a normalization...
...DAVID PUTTNAM Producer of classy films like Chariots of Fire is named chairman of Columbia Pictures. Soon disparages the work of Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray and Bill Cosby. Departs before long...
Despite hearing that damning litany, District of Columbia superior court Judge George Mitchell last month ordered that Pixley be moved from a detention center--where she was serving time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned...
Born in North Carolina but raised in Atlanta, Dupri began wishing and striving for onstage success early on. When he was still just a teen, he discovered, designed and launched the kiddie rap group Kris Kross. In 1992 Columbia Records gave him his own subsidiary label, So So Def, establishing him as a powerhouse in Atlanta's thriving R.-and-B. scene. Dupri, whose real last name is Mauldin, brought his parents, who are divorced, along for the ride: his mother, Tina Mauldin, runs his production company, and Dupri's deal helped his father, Michael Mauldin (a former road manager...