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...identity as a Latino quickly comes into play as the film draws a very defined line between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented by investment banker Jack Whimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), comes off as being more corrupt and far more superficial than its ethnically diverse neighbor...
...other four positions are publicity coordinator, communications coordinator, technical liaison and the newly-added post of historian. Mike M. Donahue ’05, Robert A. Hodgson ’05, E. Peyton Sherwood ’04 and Peter A. Dodd ’06 will fill those roles...
...Peter Jackson how lord of the rings has changed his life, and he answers, "What life?" For five years, he has devoted himself to Lord of the Rings, always with Walsh at his side. Though they have never married, they share two children (Kate, 6, and Billy, 7) and a rambling old house overlooking the bay in Wellington. They met at a screening of Jackson's first movie, 1987's Bad Taste, a gross-out horror flick about human-eating space aliens. What in the world did Walsh see in the young filmmaker? "I think it was the brain-eating...
...tough sell. "Harvey offered very severe terms," says Ken Kamins, Jackson's agent at ICM. "Also, people thought Peter was untested for something of this size." Mark Ordesky knew better. An executive at New Line--and an old friend of Jackson's--Ordesky championed Lord of the Rings to his bosses, Shaye and Lynne. "Everybody around the world knew about this series of books," says Shaye, who suggested they should make three movies. "It was so wonderfully presold. It was like Superman or Batman." By making them all at once, they reasoned, the cost per film would be diminished; most...
...then, in a display reminiscent of the interrogation scenes in so many movies, the Columbia Daily Spectator writers would grill Tellier on every aspect of the Lions’ failure. The 2000 game was the worst. Tellier seemed a very likeable guy—in a Peter-Falk-as-Columbo kind of way—and the Spec raked him over the coals for some 15 minutes, asking question after question to which there really was no answer...