Word: paramount
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That task falls to the guiding hands of Brill and new assistant coach Ron Murphy, brought in specifically for his defensive expertise. Molding the talents of sophomore stoppers Tariq Jawad and John Vrionus, and senior outside backs Tom Marcotullio and Derek Swaim is of paramount importance in producing the quick start Locker envisions...
...foretold by Carter's personality, the pressure to be first where the action is, the fear that his pictures were never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used to banish that lucidity. If there is a paramount lesson to be drawn from Carter's meteoric rise and fall, it is that tragedy does not always have heroic dimensions. "I have always had it all at my feet," read the last words of his suicide note, "but being me just fit up anyway...
...movies, an agent once said during the 1970s, are "a business run by 10 idiots and Bob Evans." Back then Evans headed Paramount, and he could do no wrong: he was responsible for Love Story and The Godfather, among other hits, and later made Chinatown under his own production deal with the studio. During the '70s, Evans was married to Ali MacGraw, his third wife, and that's the decade he became friends with Jack Nicholson and hung out with Henry Kissinger. But the '80s weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine...
Still, the last week was an emotional bath for both men, who have worked together for 19 years, ever since Katzenberg joined Eisner at Paramount Pictures. "Bittersweet is a good way to describe our parting," says Eisner. "I wished that Jeffrey were 10 years younger and didn't have the normal and natural ambition to move on." He felt he was at an executive-clock- ticking moment, and those things happen...
...have to give Comcast credit," concurs an industry consultant. "When Barry was on the line for Paramount, Brian Roberts killed himself to support Barry. He worked the phones, he worked the press, he worked the investment community; he was an extremely loyal and effective ally in Barry's biggest battle. When a guy does that and the next thing you do is turn around and screw him, it seems to me he's entitled to better...