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Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis): "A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.... A columnist can't do without us - except our good and great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with...
Homeless people who scavenge garbage bins for food have for years been said to be "Dumpster diving." But now the term has morphed to describe an unscrupulous business practice: rummaging through a competitor's trash for inside information. It's a low-tech form of corporate espionage that has increased...
When Bush moved to the White House, Lay promoted Wood's appointment to the FERC. (Bush admired Wood and might have appointed him anyway.) Lay then spoke to FERC chairman Curtis Hebert, a Republican. Hebert says Lay warned that he should take a more aggressive approach to deregulation or risk...
My friend Judy Curtis demanded totally uncritical support from everyone around her. "I smoked and drank through the whole thing," she says. "And I hated the lady from the American Cancer Society." My role model.
After a management turnover at Sony, several more rewrites were assigned while many directors, including Barry Sonnenfeld, Curtis Hanson and Spike Lee, circled the movie. Mann ultimately took the job after meeting with the Alis. "The one thing they feared was a sentimentalization," says Mann, "a teary Hallmark- greeting version...