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Even jury duty in Los Angeles is glamorous. During jury selection at the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, at least half a dozen people connected to the film industry went through voir dire. At the end of the process, Peter Guber, former chairman of Sony Pictures, ended up being impaneled. Guber revealed that while he was head of the studio, his company made a film with Ryder, but after promising he could be objective, he was selected to serve. Guber, who heads Mandalay Entertainment, will have to lay off Daily Variety for a while. The judge has forbidden jurors...
...HUNT UPDATE: Marc A. Ryder ’03 can’t talk about anything but investment banking even when he wants to. Commented a disturbed Liz D. Wellbridge ’05, “Why did that weird guy just ask me if he could re-finance my global portfolios...
...refreshes the headlines every 10 to 15 minutes. What you see is a beta version - meaning it's not perfect and there remains to be some "fine tuning" of the algorithms. On Friday morning, for example, at 8:30 am, Google ran a USA Today headline about the Ryder Cup, a golf tournament, while the competition was more concerned with a pending Congressional resolution on the use of force in Iraq. (Apparently, the algorithms can't get enough of Tiger Woods...
...rotten year. The English golfer hasn't won all season. His best finish was 15th, at last month's NEC Invitational in Seattle. Last year, he was ranked No. 4 in the world. Now he's No. 133, the lowest of any player at next week's Ryder Cup. People keep asking whether this fading star has any shine left for his team, and it's getting on his nerves. "People put too much emphasis on [the Cup]," he said two weeks ago, after missing the cut at the European Masters in Switzerland. "It's supposed...
...trouble with movies is movie stars. They hate their trailers; they hate their scripts; they especially dislike directors like Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino)--once aspiring, now merely woebegone. He yearns to replace his current star, a marvelously hateful Winona Ryder, with a more pliable model. A few keystrokes using a new computer program--click, click, click--and--presto!--he has the perfectly beautiful but only virtually real Simone (a digitally modified Rachel Roberts...