Word: joel
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...Under no circumstances would I ever have anyone fired for having breasts that were too large." BILLY JOEL, pop singer, responding to accusations from a dancer in a production of his hit Broadway show Movin' Out that she was fired because of her ample bosom...
...this would have appealed to Larry and Andy Wachowski, the band of brothers behind the Matrix trilogy. In the same way those movies did, V for Vendetta melds big ideas about power and liberation with futuristic blowuppy thrills. "I've made a lot of stupid action films," says Joel Silver, a producer on V. "But when we made the Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that." In the mid-1990s, back before Keanu knew kung fu, the Wachowskis wrote a screenplay of V for Vendetta. When Matrix mania finally subsided in 2003, they had the time...
Like television, radio is dealing with its own segmentation issues that are giving static to broadcasters. CBS Radio CEO JOEL HOLLANDER, who recently lost his big moneymaker, Howard Stern, to satellite radio, spoke to TIME's Daren Fonda about reviving his business and keeping listeners on the terrestrial dial...
...will be sandwiched between the old guard, with Dennis Hastert of Illinois staying in the top job as Speaker of the House and Blunt keeping his post as number three in the party hierarchy. "Blunt?s a good man, but he couldn't overcome the relationship with DeLay," said Joel Hefley, a congressman from Colorado who was ousted as head of the House ethics committee early last year after it repeatedly rebuked DeLay for questionable behavior...
...unlike Robertson, Joel never followed up a week later by saying, "My zeal, my love of Israel, and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief." Those were Robertson's words in a letter delivered to Sharon's son Omri yesterday evening, Israeli time. The letter, marked for hand delivery yet also posted on Robertson's website, also asked "the forgiveness of the people of Israel" and pleaded that "when I speak, it is always...