Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moderate psychological depression--and that is a lot of pain--all ended up being not clinically depressed and retained that over 14 months." He and his students have also applied his forgiveness "intervention" to elderly parents angry at distant children and men hurt by the abortion decision of a partner. His latest project is with sex offenders in a Madison mental-health facility. Enright feels that by helping them forgive the abusers in their own past, he may awaken empathy for their victims and decrease their recidivism...
Another rumor has Sony as a potential DreamWorks partner. Certainly Sony chief John Calley and Spielberg have bonded personally: Calley is advising the director as he mulls over buying a yacht. But Calley says no corporate conversations are under...
...verdict on those two cinematrocities: "The sad thing is, they weren't the worst films I did." Chen may be thinking of Wild Side, a fascinating mess in which she took a three-minute nude roll in the sheets with Heche, who later became Ellen DeGeneres' lesbian partner. "Before me, she was with boys," Chen says roguishly. "After me she came out. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding...
Here's how they work: investors contribute their appreciated stock to a limited partnership in exchange for a proportional interest in it. After seven years, the partnership dissolves and each partner redeems his interest "in kind." That means partners are given equal amounts of all the stocks in the fund. It's a nifty way to launder, say, 50,000 shares of General Motors into about 500 shares each of 100 different companies without having to sell and pay an immediate tax on the capital gain...
There was more than just a p.r. battle between DreamWorks and Miramax over whether Miramax "bought" the Best-Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love by spending record sums on advertising. There was a big wager too. DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG bet WARREN BEATTY that Miramax would print more ads by a certain date than DreamWorks would run to hype rival Saving Private Ryan. The stakes: a $10,000 contribution to the charity of the winner's choice. When the deadline rolled around, Beatty claimed victory. (Miramax's final tally was 118 pages, vs. 165 for DreamWorks.) Katzenberg alleged a miscount...