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...Yeah, I have a few dollars, but when you?re getting up to the point where the average movie costs $80 million, anything under $20 million is pretty cheap. Anything under $10 million is almost impossible. And anything under $5 million is Roger Corman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...came to the U.S., and the following year he took a job as a driver for Roger Corman, America's master of the cheap and quick. Soon promoted to assistant to the director, he learned everything he needed and then returned home in 1962. Globus, who had gone to business school in Tel Aviv, joined him in 1963 to form Noah Films, which eventually dominated the Israeli film industry. In 1979 they decided to move their base to Mecca, as they call Hollywood, and bought control of the ailing Cannon Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bring Back the Moguls! | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...narrative form differently than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community of tree-dwelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Anthology | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

From schlock überproducer Rodger Corman and first-time writer-director Francis Ford Coppola, comes this intriguingly novel look at the familiar axe-murderer-haunts-a-family-because-of-secrets-that-won’t-stay-buried genre. Startling heart attack aside, the opening scene is strangely lovely and serves to sets up the heroine’s very real moral conflict. Although the blonde-haired beauties are visually interchangeable—courtesy of their cookie-cutter cheerleader good looks and the graininess of the black and white photography—their characterizations are nuanced. Although he was hired...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cult Love | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...year, his son and son-in-law—both named Jim—urged him to finish his degree. After initial rejection, the College eventually waived the residence requirement, Rigby said. He conducted a course in American History via e-mail with Associate Professor of History Catherine A. Corman, completing the credit needed for his degree...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sixty-Two Years After Senior Year, Veteran Earns Diploma | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

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