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...those young fans have shown team owners that there is money to be made, and that has attracted a new breed of owner. Investor groups, including the likes of Bill Murray, Jimmy Buffett and Nolan Ryan, have discovered they can get into the game for a relatively small investment. You can buy a whole Class A team for $2.5 million. Even better, the salaries of players and coaches of affiliated teams are paid by the big-league teams. (A Class A minor-league rookie makes $850 monthly.) Half the minor-league teams play in stadiums built or completely renovated since...
There are two kinds of directors in Hollywood: despots and doting parents. Despite his focus on the darker corners of the human psyche, Nolan is shaping up as one of the latter. "He's so calm," says Hilary Swank, who plays Insomnia's idealistic local detective, "and really aware of people's safety. In the scene where I get punched by Robin, Chris made sure it was all worked out and rehearsed, and we did just three takes. Usually directors want 20 to make sure they sell the punch...
...Nolan had three leads with wildly different styles of working. Pacino required rigorous rehearsals, long conversations about character, and numerous takes; Williams wanted many takes but minimal rehearsal; and Swank preferred to do simply a few takes and save her energy. Nolan's solution was to let Pacino and Williams experiment as much as they wanted while they worked alone. "The best actors," says Nolan, "instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate...
Williams, an actor who has played more than his fair share of sentimental heroes, gives a reserved, surprisingly creepy performance as the hack novelist turned murderer. Says Williams: "Is it stunt casting? Maybe, but it puts people off guard, and Chris Nolan has this amazing sense, visually and dramatically, of always keeping the audience off guard...
...Nolan lives in Los Angeles with his wife (and producing partner) Emma Thomas and their infant daughter. He's writing his next project, a biopic of Howard Hughes. Again he'll plumb the depths of human neuroses and take a funny man to the dark side--in this case, Jim Carrey as the reclusive billionaire. "It's about the extremes to which one man can live--the glamour, the wealth, then the claustrophobic unhappiness," says Nolan with the most benign smile possible...