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...pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware in 1999 for producing Shakespeare in Love, and he has marketed pictures that have scored nearly 60 other Oscars. But Miramax holds special meaning for the brothers primarily because it was named after their mother Miriam and their deceased father Max. That's about as sentimental as Harvey gets. At Disney his brawls with filmmakers and show-biz executives made almost as many headlines as his shrewd, aggressive handling of such quirky hits as The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction and Chicago...
George Clooney's�longest-running relationship with a nonfamily member has ended. Yes, Hollywood's perma-bachelor did manage to commit, to a nearly 300-lb. Vietnamese potbellied pig named MAX, for 18 years. Max, 19, died peacefully at Clooney's Los Angeles home earlier this month. "He got me in a lot of trouble, that pig--scared the hell out of a lot of delivery people too," an emotional Clooney said days later at the premiere of his newest film, The Good German. Clooney first bought Max for his girlfriend, actress Kelly Preston. Preston left for John Travolta; Clooney...
...season, the team had already blended veteran dominance with its considerable freshman talent in several tournament successes. Yesterday, the Crimson struggled through a sluggish performance in the nation’s capital. “I don’t think we wrestled stupid,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “We just weren’t hungry and we were not wrestling well in general.” Specifically, Crimson head coach Jay Weiss pointed to Harvard’s inadequate number of take-downs as a measure of the team’s lack...
...team might be one of the best in recent memory.“It shows the whole team that we’re ready from the get-go to accomplish all of those things that we have said we could in the past,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “We’re at a higher level early in the season, and it just helps our overall confidence.”Given his quiet demeanor, Ogunwole’s coach and teammates agreed that he leads by example as a competitor, as a mentor...
...contrast black-and-white stock. He even dug up antique lenses, of the kind directors were obliged to use a half-century ago. By golly, if he shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...