Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willing to pay breathtaking sums to surefire stars. Now Hollywood's obsession with the talented few is fueling a billion-dollar personnel tug-of-war that pits Warner Bros. against Sony for the services of the two hottest movie producers to come along since Samuel Goldwyn met Louis B. Mayer...
...think it is very difficult to define [the policy] in terms that would hold up legally," said Tufts President Jean Mayer in a statement explaining why he abolished the policy "We are better off to examine things case by case," Mayer added...
Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two brothers and two sisters over who has rights...
Ruby, who died of cancer more than three years after shooting Oswald, left two disputed wills: one names Mayer executor of his estate. According to Jack's brother Earl Ruby, another will, written in the hospital but unsigned because Ruby died ten minutes before the witness arrived, leaves the weapon to his family. Whoever gets the gun will sell it, but the proceeds could be quickly eaten up. Taxes owed to Texas and the IRS top $100,000, says Mayer, and he claims he is owed...
...that Gabler stints his descriptions of the rages and outrages by which, up to now, we have known Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and their ilk. There is plenty of rowdy entertainment here. But there is also unsentimental sympathy for these East European Jews who, barred by prejudice from the genteel, gentile Establishment, created a patriarchy that was in its way more potent. The dream America that they placed on the screen -- an epic, colossal megafiction -- in time redefined the American dream for everyone. That empire of their own thus became a mighty colonial power in the world...