Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
...moment, we are going to do more than a billion dollars this year, and that's not coasting." The studio didn't blink when Warner and Disney warned that Jerry Maguire would get steamrollered if it opened at Christmas, in competition with their respective offerings, Mars Attacks and The Preacher's Wife. According to Sony executives, Warner chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel even tried to enlist Tom Cruise to delay Jerry Maguire's Dec. 13 opening. (Daly says he knows nothing about such an effort...
Calley's plan worked. Mars Attacks and Preacher's Wife tanked; Jerry Maguire grossed $154 million in the U.S. and an additional $120 million overseas. During the summer, thanks to distribution chief Jeff Blake, Sony dared to open My Best Friend's Wedding against Batman & Robin. Once again Sony triumphed, with a film that grossed $123 million domestically and is performing well abroad...
...last Saturday was, in the end, a rather sad occasion. No one wants to see the Revenue boys ? the guys that have those militia fellas all in knots, the guys that brought down Al Capone, for gosh sakes ? reduced to wearing brightly colored buttons and greeting you like the preacher in the receiving line after Sunday meeting. You want your tax service to put the fear of God into you, to be firm but fair, and for there to be Serious and Severe Consequences if you don't comply with the full extent of the tax law. You want...
...parts Anglo, one part German, one part Cherokee. He was born in 1925 in one of the most art-free zones of America, Port Arthur, a bayou oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, and as a teenager he thought of becoming a preacher. Luckily for American art, and perhaps for the ministry too, he ditched the notion on realizing that the Church of Christ forbade dancing. He did a stint in the Navy, as a male psychiatric nurse--which confirmed him as a lifelong pacifist. He dabbled in painting, then (after his discharge...