Word: penney
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...Somehow it became lodged as an official box-office gross, and that's when all hell broke loose," says Zyzzyx director/writer John Penney. Movie fan sites, major publications and even National Public Radio have been chiming in. Now, oddly enough, the movie is enjoying a flurry of press and attention as the latest successor to historic turkeys such as Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Plan 9 From Outer Space...
...Penney, who's keeping a good sense of humor about the whole fiasco, says, "It's not how I imagined launching my directing career." Still, he's since directed a second feature and plans to shoot his third this spring. "I guess you could say I'm failing upward...
...Penney is undaunted. "Folks in the film industry know why these screenings are held for SAG, and they laugh about it," he says. "But people who aren't in the business look at me like I've had a death in the family...
First-time novelist Stef Penney won Britain's Costa Book of the Year award this month for The Tenderness of Wolves, a vivid portrait of life in snowswept Canada. The book's realism is particularly impressive since Penney has never visited the country. Suffering from agoraphobia, she could only make it as far as London's British Library to do her research. But fictional fudging is an illustrious tradition (Shakespeare almost certainly never left England, either) - and other acclaimed modern authors have gotten by with less meticulous research...
...afterthought unit of Limited Brands but spun itself off and repositioned itself as the hottest label for the teen crowd. Even once dowdy JCPenney reinvigorated itself by hiring a smart merchandiser, Vanessa Castagna, as executive vice president and giving her the freedom to remake the brand. "She helped make Penney's cool, and the Gap needs to be cool," says Chen...