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...Hutton, who died this month at 86, was the reigning female star of the 40s at Paramount Pictures. She is remembered for three roles: as the somehow-impregnated bobbysoxer in Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, as Annie Oakley in the Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun and as the lovelorn trapeze artist in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth - top-billed in the movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture...
...Contrary to the grim predictions made about Hong Kong before the 1997 handover, the territory's economy and infrastructure have never been better, the rule of law remains paramount, business practices and regulations are transparent, and corruption is virtually nonexistent. Hong Kong is not a stand-alone sovereign democracy, but it has thrived precisely because of "one country, two systems." Hong Kong works...
...tomboyish winsomeness." Offscreen, blond bombshell Betty Hutton struggled with an addiction to pills and four failed marriages. Onscreen she lent a brash, explosive energy to such films of the '40s and '50s as Annie Get Your Gun and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. After walking away from Paramount--and her film career--in a 1952 dispute, Hutton acknowledged she could be, well, temperamental. "When I'm working with jerks with no talent, I raise hell until I get what I want," she said...
...views but rather so “that all ideas, however incendiary, can be voiced and judged in a true marketplace of ideas.” If, as you claimed, you are in fact concerned “that the principle of free and uninhibited debate is defended as paramount to our academic institutions,” then as a campus newspaper you must do your part in “present[ing] all opinions in the open marketplace, thereby enabling people to arrive at the correct understanding of the truth.” In this instance, by only covering...
Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations...