Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...
Bozzotto, who describes himself as a "non-violent direct confrontationalist," has in the past picketed President Derek C. Bok's home and those of other members of Harvard management--as in 1986, when the University threatened to contract out food service at the Faculty Club and divide the Business School workers from the union's benefit structure...
After a 10-month, $1.5 million investigation, the committee of six Democrats and six Republicans voted unanimously to issue a report finding "reason to believe" Wright had run afoul of House rules requiring reporting of gifts, barring acceptance of gifts from persons with a direct interest in legislation and limiting outside earned income...
...panel agreed with its counsel, Chicago attorney Richard J. Phelan, that Mallick's major interests in real estate and oil and gas ventures and in redevelopment of Fort Worth's historic stockyards district gave him a direct interest in legislation on taxation and on certain appropriations bills. His financing arrangements with savings and loan institutions also gave him an interest in legislation involving the Savings and Loan industry, the committee found...
Shamir's proposed elections come heavily, perhaps fatally, encumbered. He said the Palestinians must first stop their violent 16-month-old uprising, the intifadeh. Shamir also refused to countenance international supervision of the balloting, despite gentle prodding from Secretary of State James Baker, and rejected direct participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which the Arabs in the occupied territories already consider their legitimate representative...