Word: forde
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...Betty Ford Former First Lady and founder of the renowned drug-addiction treatment facility in California In light of her recent trip to the United Arab Emirates to raise breast-cancer awareness, Laura Bush is a natural candidate for me. In signing the Memorandum of Understanding with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi and the Susan G. Komen foundation, she has opened doors for women's health and emphasized the need--and possibility--for all women to be informed about breast cancer...
...introduce themselves to a wide audience (Bill Clinton rocking shades and a sax on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1992), change their public image (Richard Nixon socking it to them on Laugh-In during the 1968 race) or remind voters that they're not actually Chevy Chase (Gerald Ford's press secretary, Ron Nesson, hosting Saturday Night Live at the start of the 1976 campaign). Recently Barack Obama, in need of a boost in the polls, popped up on both The Ellen DeGeneres Show...
...impressive career as a younger person," says Francis Ford Coppola, "but it was like an older director's." Perhaps that's why people have been wondering if he'd gone into early retirement. The director of such indelible movies as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now hasn't put out a film in 10 years and has been, by his own admission, in a creative slump for 25. So now he's changing tactics: since he couldn't scramble out of the ditch going forward, he's trying reverse. For his next film, the aptly titled Youth Without Youth, Coppola...
...Within his family's company, Francis Ford Coppola Presents Ltd., Coppola can make any movie he wants if he spends less than $17 million. Youth, thanks to financial incentives for movies made in Europe and some scrappy filmmaking, fits into that category. Coppola set up a production office at a friend's Bucharest pharmaceutical company, auditioning actors and cinematographers amid stores of cough syrup and vitamins. He hired a 28-year-old director of photography who had just gotten out of film school to shoot in less expensive high-definition digital video. With the help of old friend George Lucas...
Cornell’s Nathan Ford completed his first 14 passes last week against the porous Princeton secondary. Two Dartmouth quarterbacks did not combine for that many completions in four quarters against Harvard. Put the Big Red down for its first road victory since...