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...twice what they have received for videotape and DVD residuals. Across Los Angeles and Park City on Thursday, writers, directors, actors, producers and studio executives were scrutinizing the pact. "People can argue over whether it's a good deal or a bad deal," said Paul Haggis, the writer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby, poring over the DGA data points in his office in L.A. "If there's any way to make it work, the writers will...
...back from a book tour in China, where, obviously they have grappled with [population control] and learned the difficulties of imposing it. With luck, those will be instructive lessons. Every species in the history of biology that has reached the end of its resources has suffered a population crash. And we are going to. We've been stretching our food supply, ... force-feeding our soils with chemicals, and we've gotten to the point where it's starting to really bite back at us. There will be a population crash of humans. Either it's one we manage ... or nature...
Today it wasn't just Michael Mansfield, lawyer for Dodi's father, Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed, that Burrell had to answer to. Richard Keen - the lawyer for the parents of Henri Paul, the driver who also died in the 1997 crash in Paris - and Ian Croxford, representing the Ritz Hotel, Paris, the starting point for Diana and Dodi's fateful journey, also got in on the act. Questioning him one after the other, they all seemed to be trying to prove the same thing: there are three sides to every story - Paul Burrell's, Paul Burrell...
...said, he said" continued, Burrell also had to take back a statement he'd made earlier about the "friendship ring" Dodi had given Diana. In A Royal Duty, he wrote that, after a conversation he'd had with Diana about the ring a few days before the crash, he hadn't seen or spoken about it ever again. But, in fact, he had picked up the ring along with Diana's possessions after she died. He had decided not to mention that fact in the book because "I didn't feel I had to at the time." Things got ludicrous...
What was your worst crash? Will Randle, CONCORD, MASS. I've had a lot of them. I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old?break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon...