Word: maker
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...other film maker of the first rank has devoted himself so fully to another medium as Ingmar Bergman has to the stage. Since his career began in 1944 (when his first screenplay was produced, and he was named artistic director of the Halsingborg City Theater), Bergman has spent most of his time as one of the world's premier theater directors. For him, the writing and directing of films is both a vacation from and an extension of his stage work. In films from Smiles of a Summer Night to Fanny and Alexander, Bergman has celebrated that bare stage...
...about ten years now," MacLachlan says of Paul, and when he was barely one year out of acting school, he got a chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space saga...
Riboud and his company, however, now face stiff challenges. The drop in oil prices has pared Schlumberger's profits, and the firm is still struggling to digest its 1979 acquisition of Fairchild Camera & Instrument, an ailing semiconductor maker. Riboud, who has been granted the right to stay on beyond 65, may face his toughest test when he finally steps down. Says he: "To leave Schlumberger would be like trying to shake an oyster off a rock...
...smoothly. The journalist would call the broker from a pay phone near the Journal's newsroom in lower Manhattan to alert him to upcoming stories. For instance, on Oct. 26 Winans told Brant about a negative story that was due to appear on Commodore International, the home-computer maker. By selling the stock short, Clark made a profit of $134,671.79. Not all the trades were successful, though. When a favorable story on oil service stocks, including Schlumberger, failed to move the stock higher, Felis lost...
...more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker, has already closed two plants. Porsche and Mercedes-Benz might also curtail production...