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...some Hollywood tout were to have set a morning line on B-list directors of the mid-'40s, he would have put his money on Edgar G. Ulmer, who with such no-budget films as Bluebeard and Detour was spinning gold out of Poverty Row dross. But fate had a couple of twists in store. Ulmer never graduated to A-level movies. Mann did - after making some remarkable killer...
...Another says Burge forced him to play fake Russian roulette. Over the years, hundreds of similar stories emerged, some with enough merit that they factored large in former Gov. George Ryan?s decision to declare a moratorium on executions in Illinois in 2000 and clear the state?s Death Row...
...office; Signs in 2002, an additional $408 million. Even his "flops," Unbreakable and The Village, grossed in the $250 million range. Shyamalan (pronounced Shah-ma-lahn) is well aware of the power of those numbers. "Except for Pixar, I have made the four most successful original movies in a row of all time," he says--not as a boast but to explain Hollywood math. His films are relatively inexpensive to shoot, costing about $65 million to $68 million. "If you're not betting on me," he says, "then nobody should get money. I've made profit a mathematical certainty...
...from them first. Opponents respond that there is nothing to stop scientists from doing that. The issue is federal funding, which Bush believes should focus on research that does not require the destruction of embryos. But aren't those particular leftover embryos already doomed? "We don't take death-row inmates and use their organs either," says David Christensen, the conservative Family Research Council's director of congressional affairs. "We should not kill humans for body parts, at any stage of development...
...Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested in 2003 for allegedly photographing that prison and died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...