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...insular world of jazz, all roads lead to New Orleans, and in 1971 Sancton and Allen crossed paths at the Jazz and Heritage Festival. One night they both sat in on a jam session at Bonaparte's Retreat, a smoky riverfront club on Decatur Street. Last year, when Sancton started playing at the Cajun, a Manhattan night spot, he discovered that his pianist occasionally filled in with Woody's group at Michael's Pub. The pianist later told Allen about Sancton's return to the bandstand. "I met him in 1971," the filmmaker responded. "Do you think he remembers...
While outsiders often have trouble adapting to Hollywood's insular ways, Sony appeared decisive and savvy last week. Columbia CEO Victor Kaufman and chief operating officer Lewis Korman announced that they would be leaving once the deal was set. At the same time, Sony said it agreed to pay $200 million to buy Guber-Peters Productions. One of the hottest producer teams in Hollywood, Peter Guber, 47, a former Columbia production executive, and Jon Peters, 42, who got his start as a hairdresser to the stars, produced Rain Man for United Artists and Batman for Warner Bros...
...begins. "My story is one of slog and grind and disappointment and overcoming." Growing up in Trinidad "among advertisements for things that were no longer made," Naipaul rebelled against the prevailing backwater mentality. His model was his father, a journalist who tried to bring new ideas to his insular community. Seepersad Naipaul died in 1953, a defeated man of 47. Yet, as his son has written, "he made the vocation of the writer seem the noblest in the world; and I decided to be that noble thing...
Quayle's mission was most useful in broadening the horizons of an insular young politician whose horizons until recently did not reach much beyond Indiana. During the campaign, Quayle bragged about the foreign leaders he knew, but those were chiefly from the NATO allies and Israel. In the rest of the world, he has many people to meet and much to master before he can be trusted to venture beyond a carefully prepared script. On last week's tour Quayle persuaded at least a few observers that he might be up to the task. As his official plane flew back...
...sure that there aren't other cities where she could have won," said the Bentley spokesperson who is a Baltimore resident. "Baltimore people are local people. It's kind of insular in that way. And it's tough for an outsider to come in here and be automatically accepted...