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DIED. ERNEST GOLD, 77, Vienna-born Oscar-winning composer who wrote scores for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Exodus, among other films; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Gold broke into Hollywood in the mid-1940s, writing music for low-budget movies for Columbia Pictures...
...execs queuing up to get into a movie theater. Novice directors being slavishly courted by slick Hollywood agents. Must be time for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Robert Redford's annual conclave--and open market--of independent cinema. Aside from the high-priced bidding wars over low-budget movies, a favorite festival ritual is the emergence of a relatively unknown actress as a genuine starlet, complete with fawning fans, attitude-heavy handlers and enough buzz to short-circuit her StarTAC...
Considering a special faculty dinner at you local Harvard House? These power-schmoozing opportunities come off painfully low-budget despite the efforts of HDS to dress up the affair with dim lighting, tablecloths and live music. Don't fall for it. This weekend, she's just a playah...
...economics of producing in Boston may deter filmmakers, particularly those working on low-budget, independent projects...
...Flynn's low-budget campaign intends to use the remnants of his once mighty grass-roots operation to get out the vote. But the residual goodwill from his 10 years as mayor is ebbing. After he left office, two of his top aides were convicted of fund-raising-related crimes. And Flynn's tenure as an ambassador earned him a reputation for erratic and often unstatesmanlike behavior in Washington and Rome. After the Globe published an eyewitness account of him appearing drunk in the late afternoon, Flynn went on 60 Minutes to rebut the charges. Now he dismisses the controversy...