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Friends called her the "cowgirl of the typewriter." She started in 1941 on a simple script rewrite, and over a 10-year career during the 1940s and '50s, Frances Kavanaugh, 93, wrote nearly 30 screenplays for westerns, a genre dominated by men on both sides of the camera...
...were all coming into a theoretical concept," says Ryan Kavanaugh, whose Relativity Media has invested in films with budgets totaling more than $8 billion, in partnerships with Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. and others. "Let's plug this into a model and let's do it. There were a dozen deals, some that worked, some that didn...
...film finance market had worked itself into a froth, and banks far and wide were looking to get in on it. "There was an influx of so much capital, it caused deals to get priced in ways that didn't make sense," says Kavanaugh...
...Kavanaugh, one of the few who has been able to close studio finance deals in the past few months, says he welcomes the new rules. "It's a natural equilibrium that had to happen," Kavanaugh says. "There's not a fire sale going on. Smart deals will continue to get made, with investors having a significantly better seat at the table...
...Other events on the political horizon may animate conservatives as well. There's an upcoming battle over the judicial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the White House Staff Secretary, to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the land. Kavanaugh, a 38-year-old GOP veteran who worked for Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr, faces a possible filibuster. And Washington State's Supreme Court may soon strike down the state's marriage statute as discriminatory - making it the second state, after Massachusetts, to legalize gay marriage. Since Washington has no marriage residency requirement, one conservative...