Word: hallmark
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...material longing, but not enough to break through them, to achieve the freedom of mind and spirit that modernity keeps promising but never quite delivers. "This leaves them at once ranting and wistful, delivering those arias of discontent -- often funny, sometimes touching, always brutally frank -- that are the hallmark of the director?s famously improvisational style," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Though our heroines' initial wariness gives way to a tentative reawakening of a friendship less abrasive, possibly more trusting, than it once was, nothing much happens, dramatically speaking, in 'Career Girls.' It is less scarring than Leigh's 'Naked...
...Guts"--courses reputed to have either generous grading or slim workloads (or in the ideal case, both)--have been a hallmark of general requirements at Harvard since the very earliest years...
...essence, this kind of beguiling imperiousness that has made the Hungarian-born Halmi, who speaks in an endearingly imperfect English, one of the most prolific and risk-embracing producers in television. Through his former production company RHI and now as chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, Halmi has made nearly 200 TV movies and mini-series during the past two decades. Soon to arrive: what might be considered one of television's most audacious ventures to date, Halmi's four-hour production of The Odyssey (beginning May 18, 9 p.m. E.T., NBC), which at $32 million is, minute for minute, the most...
Like so many larger-than-life figures, Halmi is prone to hyperbole, inflating his production tabs in talks to the press. (He quoted The Odyssey's bill at $43 million.) "All his numbers are false," jokes Halmi's son, Robert Jr., the CEO of Hallmark Entertainment. "He likes to tell people things cost a lot more money than they really...
...thus knows whereof he speaks. "But," Halmi continues, "just try to make a reservation for New Year's Eve 1999 at any of the landmark restaurants around the world. It's sold out. So obviously the hype works." In that spirit, ABC asked Halmi, the chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, to come up with something about "what the year 2000 means." A tough question, so Halmi has passed the buck to 10 of America's leading playwrights--John Guare, Larry Gelbart, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Elaine May, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Wendy Wasserstein and August Wilson--each of whom...