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...PEOPLE GET NERVOUS AROUND YOU AND START MINDING THEIR P'S AND Q'S? I certainly hope so! [Laughs.] But, no, I don't go around in my Miss Manners capacity where I would scare people to death...
...minutes long, for products ranging from M&M's to the U.S. Army. The revenue stream is a plum for theater owners, who can earn as much as $4 million for five weeks of summer ads. But are they pushing the limit with moviegoers? Even some ad people are nervous. "It's a very delicate place to advertise," says Alex Bogusky, creative director for Crispin Porter + Bogusky, an agency in Miami that created prefilm BMW commercials. "People have paid money to go see a film. You can do real harm. You show up as an uninvited guest." --By Heather...
...Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein began planning a two-part adaptation of Tolkien's trilogy. Soon, however, Weinstein got nervous about the cost. And Jackson got nervous when Weinstein suggested they scrunch the tale down to just one movie. In 1998 Miramax allowed the filmmaker to shop the project to other studios, but on two strict conditions: whoever bought it would have just 72 hours to repay Weinstein the $12 million he had spent on preproduction costs, and Weinstein had to be guaranteed 5% of the gross...
...It’s been three years now and my nervous system is still screwed up,” she said...
...caught up in the other team’s momentum,” said captain Kate Ides. “They started hitting shots. We missed a few. And I think we froze up, got nervous about them catching up and lost confidence...