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...looked into renting the space for ourselves, but we couldn’t figure out how to divide our merchandise,” says Frank Kramer, the bookstore’s owner...
...many Red Sox fans have ever seen a production of the musical revues My Lady Friends or No No Nanette, but they continue to loom large over the Beantown sports scene. The entrepreneurial Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Boston star Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in late 1919 for $100,000 which he could use to plough into the plays...
...design work on Empire and get the script done while I'm also starting a bunch of companies--ILM, Skywalker Sound and Lucasfilm. I was starting a video-game company. I was developing digital film editing. At the same time I was starting Pixar"--yes, he was the original owner of that pioneer computer-animation studio, then sold it to Steve Jobs in 1985--"and launching digital animation and digital filmmaking. I was working on Raiders of the Lost Ark," which he executive-produced and co-wrote. "And I was self-financing a movie." After Star Wars, Lucas determined...
George Lucas never meant to become a filmmaker. As a teen, he dreamed of becoming an anthropologist and later an illustrator, which his father, the owner of a stationery store, called "not a proper occupation." But Lucas is sure that the Force was always with him. "I believe that even if I had become an anthropologist, I still would've started making movies and ended up right where I am now," he says. "This path has been too strongly etched, and it's too winding." While he has been wandering, we've been wondering...
...Vietnamese boat people. HONORED. PAU GASOL, 21, as the National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year; in Memphis, Tennessee. A native of Spain, the 2.13-m starting forward for the Memphis Grizzlies is the first European to win the award. SENTENCED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 78, colorful principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, to one year and a day in prison and fined $7.5 million, for heading a six-year price-fixing scheme in collaboration with the other major international auction house Christie's; in New York City. Christie's provided the authorities with key documents in exchange...