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...standard critical line on director Robert Wise, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor-earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it-mastered over...
...that violence has been rewarded," Peter Hain, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, told Time. "Actually, what has been rewarded is a switch from violence into democratic politics." The unrest may have delayed the renewal of peace talks and given republicans cover to step up intimidation against the family of Robert McCartney, whose murder by I.R.A. members helped push the group into the July announcement. But the worst damage may have been done to unionism itself. Dawson Bailie, an Orange Order official, repeatedly told a press conference, "I condone violence," only to add that he meant to say "condemn...
Lacoste's popularity at the Open--the elegant croc outcooled the oversized pony of official sponsor Polo in straight sets--was emblematic of the brand's astonishing turnaround over the past three years under the tutelage of Robert Siegel, who took over the company as a project for his retirement--or perhaps to avoid it. A self-proclaimed clotheshorse, Siegel had made a name for himself during his 29-year career at Levi Strauss, where he launched the hugely successful Dockers brand in 1986. Siegel left Levi's to run Stride Rite, then headed south to Charleston, S.C., to contemplate...
...standard critical line on director ROBERT WISE, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor--earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it--mastered over...
...decade, CG animation has achieved a commercial and artistic revolution. It has also achieved something else: it annihilated the Disney cartoon feature. Now, with a fresh team at the company--CEO Robert Iger, film-studio boss Richard Cook and animation chief David Stainton--Disney has begun the arduous process of remaking itself. "It's like a battleship changing course," Cook says. "It takes a while, but we're moving in the right direction...