Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bloom donated her endowment money last spring, Crystal said. Around that time, undergraduate women received another boost when Maisie K. Houghton '62 and James P. Houghton '58 donated the greater sum of $1.25 million to the women's initiative project...
...have yourself a nice thriller set up, with Wolfgang Petersen directing hot off Air Force One and no less than Mel Gibson in the starring role, when--oops!--Mel decides he'd rather go elsewhere to do a pet project called Parker and then cash in on a ton of money by making Lethal Weapon IV for Warner...
Thus John Calley, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost the opportunity to trumpet a major project in the works. Such are the caprices of show biz. But for Calley the collapse of the deal is particularly irksome, since Hollywood is clamoring for action from him as he marks his first year...
...seems a little retro, so is Calley. After an extremely successful run at Warner, he dropped out in 1980. He lived in seclusion, first on Fisher's Island, N.Y., and then in rural Connecticut. He played the foreign-exchange market and ignored movies, except for producing an occasional project with his friend director Mike Nichols, like 1990's Postcards from the Edge. At one point Michael Ovitz--then the top man at Creative Artists Agency--dropped by to ask if he was satisfied with his life. At the time, says Calley, "I felt I was living a little...
DreamWorks is too committed to wonder, too busy to worry. Next November the company will release The Prince of Egypt, the Moses musical that DreamWorks insiders have drolly tagged The Zion King. To build early support for his chancy project, which has no merchandising tie-ins, Katzenberg has shown clips to religious leaders, from eminent rabbis to rabid Evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Donald Wildmon. The real test, though, is to make The Prince of Egypt not like Sunday school but powerful and fun. "If you're a disbeliever," says a crew member, "you can see it as a fairy...