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...screenplay writing, performing in “As You Like It” with Gwyneth Paltrow and “Camino Real” with Ethan Hawke. Ideas rarely turn into television series — network cuts ensure that few pitches ever make it even to a pilot episode. Still, Baum says talented students should not automatically jump into investment banking, management consulting, or “lawyering” without considering jobs in the arts. “It’s useful to know that there’s opportunity and possibility for a career that pays...
...York City) for eight 3-min. episodes of The 'Bu, a parody of The O.C. in which a troubled ninja kid moves into Malibu. The 'Bu was shown on channel101.com an outlet for unemployed comedy writers and actors. Samberg and his friends actually already had an agent, a pilot deal at Fox for a sketch show (the failed Awesometown) and a job writing for the MTV Movie Awards. Still, they kept going out onto the streets with their cameras on unpaid projects, such as filming a fake mugging, one of which Kiefer Sutherland saw and tried to break...
...plane collides with a Chinese fighter jet, killing the Chinese pilot, then makes an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan; the crew is held for 10 days until the U.S. issues a letter expressing its regret...
...watermelons and cantaloupes in North Carolina; chopping wood, delivering ice and digging razor clams in the Pacific Northwest; gardening and doing odd jobs in California. After high school he wrestled at Princeton and pinned down a degree in political science. And after a three-year stint as a Navy pilot, he became an investment banker in Chicago...
...clogged with U.S.-made SUVs carrying journalists and diplomats and aid workers, are now no-go areas patrolled by insurgents eager to kidnap or kill any foreigner they come across. The safest exit strategy is to catch a flight out of Baghdad's international airport and trust that the pilot can dodge the rockets that rebels sometimes fire at planes after takeoff. But last week just getting there was an ordeal: roadside bombs and insurgent attacks prompted U.S. forces to twice seal off the main highway to the airport. The closures were temporary, but across Baghdad, they added...