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This is without doubt the most wonderful moment of my research," marveled retired engineer Pat Delgado last week, as he stood in a wheat field near Sevenoaks, in the British county of Kent. "No human could have done this...
After the war, I rode down an elevator with Arthur Kent, neatly clothed in the latest Gap-wear, and a horde of NBC executives in suits. Kent was relating the scuba diving story he had been telling on every interview show in New York and the execs were lapping it up. did anyone see "Broadcast News...
...Paramount Pictures, where the duo worked until last fall, refused to grant permission to air clips from their movies -- clips that constitute a hefty portion of the episode. The studio claims it was acceding to Simpson and Bruckheimer's demand; they deny it. Producer Nicolas Kent says he is "mystified" at why the pair would be unhappy with the show and is appalled at Paramount's position. Says he of the studio: "What they're defending is censorship...
Hooray for Hollywood. And at least a couple of cheers for Naked Hollywood, a probing, cynical, sometimes annoying but always fascinating documentary about the movie business, produced for the BBC and making its U.S. debut next week on cable. Producer Nicolas Kent got extraordinary access to a host of Hollywood bigwigs, from stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger to studio executives & and other behind-the-scenes brokers. The resulting six-part series has been described by Kent as "a study of a tribe in its native habitat...
Many of Lloyd's 26,500 names now face hefty losses, some in six figures. Among the more illustrious names are Prince Michael of Kent, actress Susan Hampshire, former Prime Minister Edward Heath and publisher Robert Maxwell. Many of the wealthy investors were attracted to the deals as tax shelters. Such benefits also attracted some middle-class men and women, who now face bills they can pay only with great hardship...