Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asking each other, "'Billy Bob' who? Is there a 'Billy Bob' here?" If you listened real hard, you could even hear "Clueless" Cher Horowitz piping, "This is California, not Kentucky!" All the same, Southern-born filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton has cut himself a big slice of the Hollywood pie. "Sling Blade"--nominated for Thornton's script and for his own starring performance--was, for some, the biggest surprise in a nomination field full of offbeat choices...
...perch at QVC for exile in the Media Mogul Wilderness, the poker-faced, once-and-future content king is ready to reveal his latest card. It is Consumer's Edge, a software developer based in La Jolla, California, that hopes to earn a slice of the online commerce pie by offering what CEO Steve Tomlin calls "deep interviews"--extensive Q&As that match consumers with pretty much any product known to the free market...
...ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president Richard Lovett told a crowd of bold-faced names like Jennifer Aniston and Michael...
...increase the size of our pie and not have to make these sacrifices," Kaplan says. "There exists a mentality that it's wrong if we're making a profit...
...biggest contribution, however, may have been introducing revenue-sharing in pro football 30 years before it created havoc in other sports. Doing so allowed teams in minor markets like Green Bay to equally share TV revenues -- the biggest part of the NFL pie -- with teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...