Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie named, you guessed it, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, complete with a rap-music sound track. Turtlemaniacs may be surprised to find their cartoon heroes are portrayed by actors in high-tech ! turtle costumes (their computerized masks, with facial expressions that change by remote control, were designed at Muppeteer Jim Henson's Creature Shop). But the rest is familiar: the jokes are campy, the ninja feats daring if a little silly, and the Turtles still squabble noisily over practically everything...
...Weinsteins' passion for their films and loving attention to 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...
...that his fellow coaches need any warning about Carril. After the Georgetown game, John Thompson graciously admitted that he had been outcoached. Jim Boeheim of Syracuse wants to avoid that possibility entirely. + "You never want to play Princeton -- never," he has said. After Princeton scared the bejabbers out of mighty Michigan State, losing earlier this season by two points, Jud Heathcote sang the same tune. "We don't want to play them anymore." Jim Valvano, the coach at North Carolina State, says playing a Carril team is like going to the dentist: very painful. Carril accepts the backhanded compliments...
Both Antipholi are confidently played. Jim Marino as the Syracusean brother has greater stage presence and creates a more complex character than Karl Lampley. Lampley, as Antipholus of Ephesus, spends perhaps too much stage time being threatening...
Nelan was assigned last year to New York City, where he can now savor firsthand the astonished looks of his colleagues as he dispenses another bit of knowledge in the hallways. "We were talking the other day about etiquette," says World editor Jim Kelly, "when Bruce remarked that there is only one thing that you can remove from your mouth and set on your plate while dining with the Queen of England. Bird shot." That ought to merit at least a $500 question on Jeopardy...