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Retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, President Clinton's nominee to replace Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, revealed last week that after he knew of his nomination, he paid $6,000 in delinquent Social Security taxes that he owed on account of his housekeeper. More than two dozen officials have been allowed to serve in the Administration after quietly paying back Social Security taxes for household help. Here is a surprising partial list...
...busiest movie industry. IN BOMBAY THEY CALL IT BOLLYWOOD, AND IT PUTS HOLLYWOOD TO SHAME: MORE THAN 700 FILMS A YEAR (ROUGHLY THREE TIMES THE NUMBER PRODUCED BY THE MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS) in the nation's 16 official languages ... Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films. And like John Woo's and Jackie Chan's action thrillers, Indian cinema exotically evokes the complex pleasures of Golden Age Hollywood, with its glamour and verve...
...library by 9 p.m. on Saturday, although this was later changed to Friday under pressure from students. “It forced each of us as students to integrate all of the course material we were learning and apply it to a problem,” said Ray Goldberg ’48, Moffett Professor Emeritus of Agriculture and Business at HBS, who was a student in WAC and later a colleague of Raymond’s. “Although we all resented it at the time, in retrospect, it was one of the best courses we all took...
...willing to spoil her in exchange for sex; as expected, she must choose between the two. Unfortunately, though, the whole movie seems to be trying so hard to get arrive at some sort of point that you’re just left feeling bored and vaguely depressed.Steve Martin, playing Ray Porter, wealthy divorcee and admirer of Mirabelle’s, is strangely robotic, and the accentuated age gap between him and Danes just makes the whole affair less palatable. Watching their physical relationship progress, I grew overly concerned for the health of his heart. Happily, his complete lack of chemistry...
...believed that for the film to be authentic, the actors needed to play and sing, not rely on looped music. "With all due respect, I don't think of Natalie Wood's performance in West Side Story as one of the hallmarks of musical cinema," says Mangold. (As for Ray, 2004's biopic about a drug-addicted music legend from the South, which used looping, Mangold says, "I don't think I want to go there.") Phoenix, who had no musical background, figured he would learn to play the same way Cash did, without formal lessons. He bought a guitar...