Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book was so widely disliked in Hollywood that Woodward found little interest when he sought to peddle the movie rights in 1984. Feldman and his partner, Charles Meeker, eventually bought the rights for a relatively modest $300,000. They started feeling pressure almost immediately. Attorneys representing several Creative Artists clients and other Belushi colleagues, like director John Landis (The Blues Brothers), wrote letters warning that portraying them in the film would be an invasion of privacy. Ovitz himself phoned, says Feldman, and "told me it wasn't a good idea to make this picture." (Ovitz says he was simply giving...
When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...
...best curves I ever saw--he throws it so hard! The damn thing breaks nearly from the guy's shoulder to the ground." Evidently, Hubbell has been studying him on television. "That's the kids' advantage, don't you see? I was raised on a cotton farm in Meeker, Okla. Didn't even get a newspaper. Never saw so much as a picture of a real major league pitcher in his windup...
...Madison, the end result is the same: he is an alien in his homeland. "It's hard to take sometimes because we're the ones that protect the game and keep this resource for them," he says. "Hunting season is what keeps Meeker alive. I'd like to run for city council but I wouldn't get ten votes." A regulation that would limit the number of bulls killed during the season for a few years would be met with great hostility, though it might improve hunting in the long...
Madison has been stationed in Meeker since 1979, when he finished his wildlife division training in Denver. The country is truly beautiful-deep aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps...