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...shoot, Haggis suffered a heart attack. "I think it was my mom's fault: bad genes," he says wryly. "We stopped shooting for two weeks while I recovered from the surgery. It wasn't that big a deal." When Crash premiered, at the 2004 Toronto fest, it had no distributor and made no special stir. That would come later...
...year's end, Crash earned no major critics' prizes, not even a Golden Globe nomination for best picture. (Not since 1983 has a film won the top Oscar without a Globe citation.) But Lions Gate, the indie distributor that picked Crash up, sent out an astonishing 130,000 dvds of the film, rightly figuring that anyone who saw it would, at least, not forget it. The tactic paid off with the SAG award and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Haggis as director and writer (with Bobby Moresco...
...allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act, a federal law that bans housing discrimination. "The laws against discrimination don't change because you add technology," says Stephen Libowsky, an attorney for the group. At issue is whether Craigslist is a publisher, subject to the Fair Housing Act, or a content distributor, which may not be liable for discriminatory ads, according to the Communications Decency Act. Housing-advocacy groups say the definition is crucial, because they think websites should abide by the same standards that newspapers are held to, especially since so much classified advertising is moving online...
WHAT ITS MAKERS ARE SAYING: An executive at Lionsgate, Crash's distributor, thought the tough job for his picture was getting it nominated. He was convinced that once voters saw it, Crash would have a good shot. So its Oscar campaign has consisted largely of a DVD blizzard of unprecedented size, which director Haggis thinks may be a new promotional paradigm. Nonetheless, he's aware that initially "people hated the politics of it, hated what I was saying and hated the filmmaking," and he doesn't believe that the more positive word of mouth that developed later will be able...
...very arrogant young man at that time," he recalls. In Bangkok, he met another upcoming media tycoon. Thaksin and he "were never friends, only acquaintances," Sondhi insists. But soon they were doing business together. In 1992, Thaksin invested in the share offering of IEC, a mobile-phone handset distributor that Sondhi had bought and which sold handsets to Shin subsidiary...