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Williams' former colleague Ronald Myers, a 31-year FBI veteran, praised his work to the Los Angeles Times. "He is one of the sharpest agents I have ever met," Myers said. "Anyone in FBI management who wouldn't take what Ken Williams said seriously is a fool." Since the trial, Williams has continued working quietly. "It's been my past experience," Williams told the court, "that the smallest bit of information that comes in could later turn out to be the most important piece of the investigation." That's a lesson Williams' bosses learned too late...
When you've got a franchise like Spider-Man, you'd be a fool to pay an actor $20 million; Tobey Maguire got $4 million. Studios will work even harder to find scripts like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and The Incredible Hulk in which the idea itself is the marquee. One irony of all this is that it makes movies more like television. Says Walter Parkes, the co-head of DreamWorks' film division: "The network-television business is really about three things: demographics, scheduling and series. We're becoming a little bit like that...
...fundamental problem with zoos is they fool us into thinking we've got animals figured out, that we can invade their space whenever we feel like it just because we find them interesting. Occasionally we find out that's not okay with the animals. Consider, for instance, the experience of San Francisco Chronicle Editor (and Mr. Sharon Stone) Phil Bronstein, who entered the cage of a 10-foot Komodo dragon and had his foot promptly and severely chomped when said animal mistook his toes for delicious white mice...
...CIRCULATION In the movie, the crooks pump gas into the room's vents. High-end rooms have a filtration system for biohazardous air and dummy air vents to fool malicious intruders...
...Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going to fool around with? HELEN CLARK Kiwi PM nailed for passing off others' artwork as her own. It turns out this unknown artist has also been running New Zealand all along...