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...industry dominated by giant Hollywood studios and behemoth budgets, Miramax Films has succeeded against all odds. With only 40 employees, it has found a niche marketing shrewdly chosen, low-budget "art house" films, most of which have been rejected by the big studios as noncommercial. Miramax Co- Chairmen Harvey Weinstein, 37, and his brother Bob, 35, have proved them wrong. Three of the ten films they released last year -- My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso and sex, lies, and videotape -- are up for a total of seven Academy Awards this month. The Weinsteins have also earned something rare among independents...
...Weinsteins, who look more like rumpled used-car dealers than Armani- outfitted moguls, say their winning knack comes from a cinema-saturated childhood in Queens, N.Y. "One day we saw this amazing movie Truffaut had done about street kids called The 400 Blows, and it spoke to us," recalls Harvey. "We fell in love with films." They still go with what speaks to them personally, putting no stock in prevailing Hollywood wisdom. They were enchanted last year by My Left Foot, about a severely crippled Irish artist. "So many people said, 'It's not sexy, it doesn't have...
...marketing -- they often write their own ads -- have endeared them to filmmakers. Jim Sheridan, director of My Left Foot, nominated for Best Picture, credits Miramax's tasteful promotional campaign for much of the movie's success: "They didn't try to sensationalize it." Observes sex, lies director Steven Soderbergh: "Harvey and Bob don't try to second-guess the audience; they move quickly and make shrewd choices...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Goalie Chris Harvey turned away 52 shots as Brown held off a final-period rally to defeat Vermont, 7-5, in the first round of the ECAC playoffs last night...
...authors take a variety of pot shots at the conservative biases of many of the University's most cherished scholars. Richard Pipes, Adam B. Ulam, and Harvey C. Mansfield take much of the flak in the arena of politics and the social sciences, while scientists such as sociobiologist E.O. Wilson take their lumps in another section...