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That's yet to happen for New York City filmmakers Sam Sokolow and Rob Lobl, who--until last week, at least--lived in that peculiar purgatory of artists who made something critically acclaimed but commercially invisible. Then help came from an unlikely source: Amazon.com the burgeoning online book/CD/electronics/toy store and auction house, which just began a program to distribute indie films. Starting this week, people will be able to buy a videocassette of The Definite Maybe from Amazon for $14.95. "With movies, it used to be either you made it big or you ended up just showing it to your...
...will it be the road to riches? The Definite Maybe is unique in that it is fully owned by Sokolow and Robl, who will split the sales proceeds with Amazon. The movie was shot over 20 days in New York using mostly borrowed equipment. Sokolow and Lobl, who paid for the film to be recorded onto vhs cassettes, need to make $100,000 just to pay back investors. "I cannot impress upon you," says Sokolow, "how poor...
...reflect a concern for other "human costs" as well, human costs represented by, for example, the incarceration of millions of persons in penal labor camps in the USSR under the five year plans, and by similar experiences in other communist countries; human costs about which former inmates (Solzhenitsen, Ginzburg, Lobl) have told us vividly enough, if we only wish to know of them: human costs, too, such as those evidenced by the continued harsh suppression of free speech and press in the USSR over a half century after the Revolution and in other communist countries almost without exception...
...Nominees are: Nathaniel C. Berkowitz, Ian W. Cadenhead, William J. DeMuth, Christopher P. Fearson, Walter Gilbert, Edward W. Judson, Jerome H. Levenson, Herbert M. Lobl, Rex N. MacAlein, Jery H. Miller, Roger H. Morris, Thomas F. Powers, Jerome S. Rice, Michael L. Riesner, Malcolm D. Rivkin, Ralph W. Walton, Walter E. Wolf, and Michael G.Yamin...
David A. Lee of 56 Cummings Rd., Brookline; Boston Public Latin. Herbert M. Lobl of 107 Nonotuck St., Holyoke; Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. Robert H. Lofgren of 106 Marlboro St., Quincy; Quincy High. William J. McIntyre of 14 Danbury Rr., Mattapan; Boston Public Latin. Andre D. Machain of 5 Roundy St., Beverly; Phillips Academy, Andover. Roger A. Moore of 629 Union Ave., Framingham; Framingham High...
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