Word: mined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend of mine saw an ad for a restaurant that said, "We treat you like family." My friend remarked, "That...
Some friends of mine returned from a stay in Provence last week, and I had to restrain myself from asking how the French are smelling these days. When I visited France in the past, I hasten to say, I hadn't found the odor of its citizens to be a matter of serious concern, but that was before I read in the New York Times that only 47% of them bathe every day. It's a figure that does, you must admit, give one pause...
This all might seem like a schoolyard squabble (He's mine! No, he's mine!), but there are bigger stakes involved. Ovitz, once Hollywood's most powerful agent, is trying to cobble together a one-stop "virtual studio" for stars--effectively usurping the roles of agent, manager and studio chief. Round 1 is building the talent bank: Ovitz first captured two of young Hollywood's brightest stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, by bringing over their managers, Rick Yorn and his sister-in-law Julie Silverman Yorn. Ovitz then started going after CAA's list of bankable celebs...
...first is that most people who know myfriends and me probably assume that I will tellthem all or part of the story. In fact, a friendof mine once told me a story about his latesthook-up and immediately said, "You're going to goacross the hall and tell this to your friends now,aren...
...verse with demotic dialect, low comedy with high passion; and as director John Madden puts it, "Who dares put words in Shakespeare's mouth and get away with it?" The answer is Stoppard, who says, "It never occurred to me to worry about Shakespeare's language butting up against mine. It's not a competition...