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...Helms, who began his career as a newspaperman and television commentator, was a Democrat until 1970. He switched parties to run for a Senate seat in 1972, taking office at the start of Richard Nixon?s fateful second term...
Aside from the look and the music of "Kong," of course, are the shaping hands of producer-director Merian C. Cooper and his co-director Ernest Schoedsack. Cooper had been among other things a sailor, a newspaperman, and a combat aviator; while in Poland after his escape from a Bolshevik labor camp, he met veteran newsreel cameraman Schoedsack...
Nevertheless, I drafted a list of my own demands, which I sent to the editor who is in charge of my raises and promotions, deputy managing editor Steve Koepp, a man many recognize as the German Newspaperman from The Paper. I told him I wanted the name of the magazine, as shown on each week's cover and all promotional materials, to read "TIME--featuring the columnistic stylings of Joel Stein." I would get to put back every penis joke my editor cuts. I wanted to fire this cartoonist and hire someone who draws a "thinner, smaller-nosed, more Stamosesque...
...would be easy to dismiss The Leap as just another self-satisfied saga of risking it all on a dotcom dream. Don't. Ashbrook's tale of how he went from disillusioned newspaperman to co-founder of the home-design empire HomePortfolio.com serves up heavy doses of self-examination and occasional melodrama ("Maybe we don't get to choose our madness"). But it is saved by self-deprecating humor and gut-wrenching suspense (Will the money run out? Will his wife?). By the end, you're praying for this guy to make...
...Hollywood do it. Most of the studios were losing money by 1932 (RKO declared bankruptcy), and racy films brought in the money. But they also fanned the ire of state and local censorship boards. In 1934 the new Production Code had teeth, and under Joseph I. Breen, a former newspaperman, it bit hard. Dialogue was denatured from snappy to sappy; gowns hid what they once revealed; evil lost a lot of its seductive plausibility. And as studios sought to rerelease their pre-Code films, Breen insisted that cuts be made in the master negative, thus censoring some movies forever...