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...from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations, job cuts and threatened strikes. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss of BBC1, Peter Fincham, who resigned...
Facing a three-goal deficit with a little over three minutes to play, the Crimson needed a spark to turn the game in its favor...
...parts,” the self-proclaimed optimist said.“I like to look at the more hopeless parts,” Deutch responded dryly. He pointed to studios’ growing reliance on the bottom line, which he said caused them to overlook seminal films in favor of blockbusters. He said of the climate when he started directing, “If you made a cool movie, you had a career. The Friday night it opened was not about how much money it made, it was about what the reviews were, whether it was going...
...tremendous. We were all required to live in the same home, and there's just a lot of dominance that goes on about who has the right to rule. And, of course, the woman who has the most favor with her husband is going to rule over the other wives and their kids...
...religion, we believed that men are not supposed to favor [one wife over another]. It happened all the time and everybody knew it happened and it was kind of a way of life. But many didn't operate as lopsided and as extreme as Merril did. A lot of men might have their favorites, but then they were a little more careful about how badly they treated the rest of the family. Merril wasn't at all careful. The first statement he made after I married...