Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still hungry. Last year Cineplex Odeon expanded into distributing such films as Prince's Sign o' the Times and Paul Newman's The Glass Menagerie. A TV production arm will make 41 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The company's Northfork division will finance five films produced by Robert Redford. In partnership with MCA Inc., which owns 49% of Cineplex Odeon, Drabinsky will help run Universal's proposed Florida theme park. Hollywood, star struck by the 39- year-old whiz kid, is whispering that Drabinsky may succeed Sidney Sheinberg, another tough customer, as president and chief operating officer...
Nice looking fellow. Even features, crinkly eyes, a ready smile, muscles taut from gym work, autumnal hair with a fine early frost. He could be a cousin of his fellow Rocky Mountain resident Robert Redford. Then look closer and find a superhero's face as it might have been drawn by Wallace Wood for a Mad comic- book parody. The jawline, a shade too prominent, entertains the rumor of buffoonery. The smile is one of unwarranted self-assurance. His eye squint seems not to have registered that the world sees him differently: as a preening oaf. With every gesture...
...Fame pro-football star. He showed right away that he was prepared to live up to it. Among the stiff rules he began enforcing: three unexcused absences would mean suspension, each subsequent truancy would mean another suspension, and after three suspensions, a student would be transferred out of Redford. "I've heard a lot about Redford, basically all bad," he told the students. "We're going to try to change all that, with your help. Now I know some of you won't do that. The rules...
...semester, Greene handed out 2,000 suspensions and ordered 100 transfers. Students got the message. By the end of Greene's first year, classroom attendance had risen from 56% to 85%. With a measure of order and calm restored, Greene went to work on academics. In 1985 he canceled Redford's football season because 17 of the school's 26 players had failed to maintain a 2.0 grade average. He began a program of accelerated classes for students who wanted them, holding periodic honors assemblies to recognize their achievements, with parents invited...
Today many students who left Redford for parochial or other schools have transferred back, swelling enrollment to 3,450. The school's once moribund parent organization has grown from ten members in 1984 to about 50. Greene, says English Teacher Janet Bobby, "built a structure around the school so everybody could be free." Although students have complained incessantly about Greene's disciplinarian ways, and in February tried unsuccessfully to stage a protest, many take pride in the school's new image. Says Junior Natalie Bien- Ami, 16: "We're not gunmen, we're smarties...