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...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...
...news on Erbitux. But Waksal's father Jack sold $6.7 million worth of ImClone, and his daughter Aliza sold $2.5 million, according to authorities. Sam Waksal's lawyer, Mark Pomerantz, denies any wrongdoing by his client, calling the evidence "circumstantial." Ditto from Jack's lawyer. Aliza's attorney, Stephen Kaufman, could not be reached for comment...
...does a fortysomething guy from Long Island, N.Y., get to be one of the most dangerous minds in Hollywood? It's not clear, since Kaufman is beyond miserly with life details. He is also loath to pose for photos. The son of an engineer and a homemaker, he studied film at New York University, and now lives a quiet life with his wife and young child outside Los Angeles. He doesn't go to parties or take meetings. "I do a lot of walking," says Kaufman, politely deflecting inquiries. "I walk and write. I walk and think, and then...
...than surrendering all rights to a studio kept the movie in search of funding for a few years. "I was perfectly happy with it not being made," he says. "I said, 'If this movie is going to be made, this is how it works.'" His stubbornness has paid off. Kaufman has a say in casting and editing decisions on the movies he owns and is even welcomed on the set, where the screenwriter is usually regarded like a nun in a brothel. And he gets repeat business. Spike Jonze, who directed Malkovich, also directed Adaptation, and Kaufman is working...
...success still doesn't sit well with Kaufman. Media interest makes him fidget. "Ten years ago, I would read an article about somebody, and it would talk about how great their life is," he says. "And I wasn't in that situation. I felt less then as a human being." He finds it incomprehensible that anybody would want to be him. His own yearning to be someone else has only recently "leveled off into just a feeling of missing something," he says. But his youthful days as a loser served him well. They have given his misfits the stamp...