Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supine movie studios? After serial firings and flashy flops like last summer's The Cable Guy, Sony called in a new rescue team last week. The Japanese electronics giant hired United Artists' president John Calley as president and chief operating officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which includes the Columbia and TriStar studios, and reassigned executive Jeff Sagansky to be Calley's co-president. For the first time, a Japanese will join the studios' management team: Masayuki Nozoe, a Sony executive with a marketing background, will become executive vice president of the entertainment division...
...used car knows that the seller typically has far more information than the buyer. That's why states have lemon laws. Such gaps in information lie at the heart of the work for which James Mirrlees of Britain's Cambridge University, and formerly Oxford, and William Vickrey of Columbia University shared this year's Nobel for Economics. By studying the "asymmetric information" that characterizes many markets, the two men, who have never met, demolished the classic economic assumption that all parties to a deal have equal knowledge...
...Canadian-born Vickrey, who died while driving to a conference three days after winning the prize, was known for his voracious curiosity and sometimes eccentric behavior. He often roller-skated from Manhattan's 125th Street train station to his classes on the Columbia campus and enjoyed sitting in on colleagues' lectures and asking pointed questions. He was keenly aware of the passage of time. "I have left undone many things that I ought to have done," he once wrote, "and can only hope that there is enough health left in me to make good some of the deficiency...
...million. The director waived his usual $5 million fee and worked for scale, as did the entire cast, including such well-known actors as Ossie Davis, Charles Dutton and Andre Braugher. The combination of low cost, big names and a built-in audience made Bus an attractive project, and Columbia Pictures offered to finance it. But Lee saw it as an opportunity to break into the white-dominated world of film financing. "I said to Reuben, 'If you and me can't raise a puny, minuscule, pooh-butt $2.4 million, then we both need to be shot...
...Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...