Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft had been dogging Netscape almost from Day One. In early 1994, according to Jim Clark, the maverick Stanford professor who co-founded the company, Microsoft wanted to license Netscape's code for $1 million. But Clark sent word that he wasn't "even remotely interested...
Several times over the next two years, however, Clark and his successor, Jim Barksdale, were persuaded to reconsider. At one point Microsoft offered $40 million in return for 15% to 20% of the company. But according to Netscape officials, the terms were always hopelessly unacceptable. In an early 1995 negotiation, for example, Netscape asked Microsoft for the advance information its programmers would need to make the Netscape browser run properly with Windows 95. According to Clark, Microsoft refused unless it got a piece of the company and a seat on the board. Netscape finally decided...
...famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian at 60 doing the same character and the same act," says Jim Carrey, 36. His odd, moving performance in The Truman Show, an odd, moving film, should ensure that 24 years from now he will have more career opportunities than, say, Jeff Foxworthy...
...Jim has a very commercial form of mental illness," says Farrelly. "He's a very sweet guy--he's got a big heart, a lot of soul--but he's a tortured animal. My metaphor for Jim is a dog who's constantly beaten up by his owner. The dog can't figure out why. He tries everything to please his owner. He walks on his hind legs; he juggles. Nothing works. Then one day the circus comes along and scoops him up, and he makes a career...
...insurance salesman, then home to his blond, bedimpled wife Meryl, perhaps off for a late brewski with his best friend, Marlon. You have it all, Truman: good afternoon, good evening and good night! Except for one thing, folks. The whole kit and kaboodle is fake. Truman (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of a 24-hour-a-day TV drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly 30 years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised...