Word: directoral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Tuesday was a bittersweet night for Hollywood. At the world premiere of the feverishly awaited Warner Bros. movie Eyes Wide Shut, the last work by the late director Stanley Kubrick, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman effervesced with the town's glitterati. But Warner Bros. co-CEOs Robert Daly, 62, and Terry Semel, 56, struck some as oddly distracted. Moments before the screening, producer Paula Weinstein found Semel alone in an empty lobby, where the two reminisced about a previous Kubrick premiere. "The moment I saw him, all these memories flooded back," Weinstein says. "I was filled with...
...others dropped out of last year's race in a spectacular doping scandal. But Armstrong's prowess has made most fans forget about all that, at least temporarily. "Armstrong's beating his illness is a sign that the Tour can beat its illness," says Jean-Marie Leblanc, director general of the Societe du Tour de France...
Eric C. Engel, director of the Memorial Hall and Lowell Hall complex, is optimistic that the new location will also attract non-Harvard affiliated customers...
...Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said the small increase was largely coincidental...
...movie's premise prevents the directors (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish cameraman Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going soundman Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them and paranoia looms...