Word: miramaxes
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...news into the New Yorker. When an editor who's won an astonishing 14 National Magazine Awards decides to cook from scratch, expectations fly over the moon. Part of it was her own fault, teaming up as she did with financial backers Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Disney's Miramax studios and proclaiming that her brainchild would be a "cultural search engine" that would spin off News! Books! Movies! And did she forget theme-park rides...
...Isaac Stern, to play Bach's Double Concerto with her and her students on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Together, they raised more than $300,000 to keep violins in the schools of Harlem. The story inspired an Oscar-winning documentary and The Music of My Heart, a Miramax film starring Meryl Streep, to be released in October. "When I first observed Roberta in class, I thought she was very hard on her kids," recalls Streep. "But her rationale was that it's a way of according respect to the discipline...
...cancel a party if he wants to--particularly if it crimps the campaign of a potential political rival. The party in question was to celebrate the launch of Talk, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's latest magazine. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, a hefty Democratic supporter whose Miramax Films part-owns the publication, had applied to hold their August revel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by New York City. But Giuliani balked when rumors, still unsubstantiated, swirled that the magazine's first cover girl would be HILLARY CLINTON, who is likely to face the mayor in next...
...Miramax and the Catholic League have been brawling for months over Dogma, a film about holy men behaving badly, which will hit theaters later this year. But even as the filmmakers invoke artistic freedom to defend Dogma's edgy religious scenes, they are quietly considering whether to re-edit other scenes, including one in which a pair of pistol-packing angels, played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, bullet-spray a board meeting at a large corporation, and another in which they have massacred a group outside a church. "There's definitely the question of Columbine to consider," says director...
...maybe that the A-list gathering would be a de facto Hillary fund-raiser -? and that its main purpose would be to thumb its New York liberal media nose at Hillary?s likeliest Republican opponent. Miramax?s people says Hillary isn?t the cover girl yet; Giuliani?s say there were plenty of other reasons to deep-six the soiree. If Tina Brown and Hillary and their fancy friends want to have any fun in New York this summer, they can go to the Hamptons just like everybody else...