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...really got to know Roger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, when he got us onto the yacht of Lew Grade, the Lord (literally; he'd been knighted) of ITV, and brought us into star-studded cocktail hours at Cannes' posh Majestic Bar; in one conversation about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the smartest comments were made by actor James Woods. ("MIT grad," Roger whispered knowingly.) In between the partying, he managed to keep sending pieces, mostly interviews, back to the Sun-Times. That Cannes, he said, he saw seven movies and wrote 11 columns. And naturally...
Among actors of the past 30 years, star meant action star. Action movies, however expensive they may be, still often make more money abroad than at home. But longtime studs like Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris will all be 60 or older this year; they've either cut way down on movie work or found other employment. And few youngsters have risen to take their place. Instead of tapping the icons, producers of action epics often recruit dramatic actors (Johnny Depp for Pirates, Tobey Maguire for Spider-Man, Matt Damon for the Bourne franchise) and build...
Such experimental techniques were par for the course that year, as the atmosphere surrounding each new project fed students’ creative whims. Grants to the Houses by the Ford Foundation and others funded workshops in theater and visual arts...
...will do everything I can to get you a bill that you probably won't like--but with which you can live. And if you don't, you will have a bill that you won't like and can't live with." When the ceos of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler testified in March, Big John demanded yes or no answers to a series of questions that boiled down to just one: Are you working with us or against us? With varying degrees of pain on their faces, each one promised to cooperate...
...level of scale and consistency better than anyone else," says Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty. Since teams usually limit the ticket prices that sellers can charge, TicketExchange eliminates both the deep discounts and the outrageous premiums. StubHub's response: the market should set the price. "Could you imagine if Ford said every time our car is resold, we should be making money on that?" says Jeff Fluhr, former CEO and founder of StubHub...