Word: moneyitis
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...Harvard I had spent most of my time doing heavyweight crew, so I made a documentary about it. I basically went to the crew coach, Harry Parker, who is still around, and said, “Can I get names of alumni to ask them for money to make the movie?” He said no, so I went into the boat house at night and copied the names of alumni down from the pictures there. I then went to the general directory, found their addresses, and sent them the letters. I also got money from the Office...
...fell in love with the material. I saw a rough cut of the pilot and a few scripts. This became one of the points in my life when I decided to pursue something based on passion, not money. I was working on the latest iteration of “Charlie’s Angels,” but it wasn’t anything I felt deeply about. “Lost” was something that fired every synapse in my brain. The cool thing was that at the time, nobody thought “Lost?...
...stay at usually team members’ houses, and they give us awesome food and cook for us,” she explains. “We usually don’t use our per diem much, and so we usually go shopping with that money...
That might have been because finances were the soccer team’s only responsibility. “We’ve done nothing except for fundraise. We sold T-shirts, I believe, championship T-shirts. Each player is just responsible for coming up with a certain amount of money,” Wideroff says...
...full-fledged comeback may be slim, considering the transgressions that led him to resign as governor in 2008. After becoming chief executive of New York and swearing to enforce its laws, Spitzer was found to be a perpetrator, a patron of an illegal prostitution ring who was wiring money to shell corporations to pay for his habit. It was hypocrisy on a scale that was hard to fathom, as if Eliot Ness had been busted for peddling gin from his apartment. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...