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...Bette Midler by playwright Paul Rudnick (Poor Little Lambs, I Hate Hamlet). When she said no thanks, the script became an orphan with many foster parents, and the usual Hollywood bustle commenced, with a new star and half a dozen new writers (including Carrie Fisher). In arbitration, the Writers Guild ruled that Rudnick was the only writer who deserved screen credit, but he declined the honor. "Joseph Howard" is the pseudonym for a committee...
...Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie of 17th century Amsterdam) he was, for most of his adult life, an extremely popular and successful artist working within a guild system that had changed relatively little since the Middle Ages. Thus he had apprentices, dozens of them over the years, whose work he sold for his own profit, and who sometimes worked on his own canvases. And they paid him, not vice versa -- 100 guilders a year for the privilege...
After the King verdict, many blacks said bitterly they had always thought the cops would be turned loose. Lester Barry, the black emcee of the "Comedy 'n the Hood" show at the Guild Theatre in Inglewood, had even been saying in his act that "those guys are going to get off." But the shock and rage after the verdict belied those statements. This time, many blacks apparently hoped, it would be different. After all, this was not merely the word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard...
Harold Ewing, an airline pilot with 25 years ofexperience flying a similar route to that of KAL007, is also scheduled to speak at the discussion,which is sponsored by the IOP Projects Committeeand the Harvard Law School chapter of the NationalLawyers Guild...
...came close to tasting perfection in tenth grade, when after volunteering at a homeless shelter, my friend and I were allowed to help ourselves to some of the pie a church group had donated for dinner. But the guild I felt while swallowing what could have been a poor homeless person's gravy-smothered portion diluted the pleasure...