Word: edwardes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After seeing the original cut only once, Orson Welles wrote a 58-page "memo" to Universal Studios head Edward Muhl detailing the mauling the studio had done to his film. Buried for 40years, the "newly-discovered" memo provided the basis for the restoration effort, now the fourth incarnation of the film. Originally 95 minutes, Touch of Evil now runs for 111 minutes, three more than the previous version. In addition to eliminating several scenes added by the studio, the current version restores originally cut footage and re-edits several scenes for a total of about 50 changes in the film...
...those efforts paid off. Last spring an amendment to the bill that would have ended affirmative action in higher education was defeated after an intense lobbying effort by Harvard and higher-education advocacy groups. Last week, partly in response to Harvard's prodding, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), snuck in an amendment which will allow some students nationwide--and many Harvard students--to save money by refinancing their student loans...
Armed with this knowledge, says Edward Keystone, director of advanced therapeutics in arthritis at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, "we're targeting every element of this disease from start to finish." The new drug Arava, for example, created by the Kansas City, Mo., firm Hoechst Marion Roussel, stops white cells from reproducing. Enbrel, a genetically engineered medication from Seattle-based Immunex, works by sopping up a tumor-killing cytokine called tumor necrosis factor before it can issue its call for reinforcements. The COX-2 inhibitors target prostaglandin production, limiting pain and inflammation. And the blood-filtration device, invented at Cypress...
...Prince Edward's Crown and Country, a TV series on things great and British, debuts this week on PBS. We noticed the prince has a few things in common with another independent filmmaker...
...EDWARD --Sometimes wears ermine --Joined the Royal Marines at 22 --Could be a King, but probably won't --Produced, wrote and stars in Crown and Country --Ditto