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...says. "If you make a slightly unusual movie or [don't] exactly follow the rules as everyone sees them, then you get in trouble or, like with Apocalypse, wait 20 years to hear that was really good." Coppola's career capstone was to be a utopian story set in Manhattan called Megalopolis, an original script he had been tinkering with since 1984. "You know those advertising-agency guys that were gonna quit and write a great novel? It was like that," he says...
...From unpaid Web work to mostly unpaid Web work - it's an irony they might have made up on 30 Rock, if anyone were writing 30 Rock anymore. Instead, its creator, Tina Fey, was walking a picket line in midtown Manhattan. "These companies clearly smell that the Internet is where their future profits are coming from," she told TIME. "If you look at nbc breaking off with iTunes and trying to start their own thing and raise the price, it's because they know this is where the money's going...
...might expect the former editor of the celebrity gossip blog, Gawker.com, to be less reluctant to name names. Coen, who spoke last night at the Harvard Law School, began writing for Gawker in 2004, penning over 6,000 entries in just two years. During her time at the Manhattan-based blog that chronicles celebrity exploits, readership rose to around 8 million people per month, approximately the number of inhabitants of New York City. “When I first took the job, my parents were livid because I was supposed to go to Columbia [School of Journalism...
...global fund-raising. The event will be part of the Dubai International Film Festival, and Stone's trip to Dubai has garnered major coverage in Dubai's Gulf News daily. On Friday evening, as TIME met Véronique Robert in a Paris café, amfAR's organizers in Manhattan called her to express concern about Alexandre's alleged attack and ask what she wanted them to do about the Dubai event. The organization's chief executive officer, Kevin Frost, says has not ruled out canceling the fund-raiser - whose tables are selling for between...
...uncommon to see waiters and dishwashers among other so called menial workers who are capable of paying for cars, plunking down large initial premiums for insurance policies or making sizable down payments on homes or apartments - in cash. The banks of Chinatown centered in Canal Street in Manhattan have combined deposits of $6 billion, behind only the ritzy Upper East Side ($8 billion) among New York City neighborhoods. Chinatown residents say it would not be surprising that waiters and garment workers could afford to make political donations in the $1,000 range...