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Interference was a given, with Miramax--Dimension Films' Bob and Harvey Weinstein backing Grimm. The Weinsteins overruled Gilliam's choice of Samantha Morton as the female lead (they wanted a more conventionally beautiful actress, and got one in Lena Headey). They fired cinematographer Nicola Pecorini after six weeks (he was shooting too slowly, they said) and nixed a silly nose Damon was to wear (Bob says, "It would be the most expensive nose job in history"). "I'm used to riding roughshod over studio executives," Gilliam says, "but the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me." To Bob, it was just business...
...Samantha Power, professor of practice and founding executive director of the Carr Center at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), said she hopes to work closely with Obama and his advisors on “three or four issues” of foreign policy, including United Nations reform, the genocide in Darfur, and the detainment camp in Guantanamo...
...author Sophie Kinsella is one of the reigning stars in chick-lit, the popular wish-fulfillment novels now being written and marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
...sisters is a lawyer in the city, and also a very close friend of ours is big-shot partner at one of the London law firms. I got inklings of their lives just from knowing them through all these years. It seemed like the perfect job [for Samantha]. When I first heard about time sheets from this friend and my sister, I was just so gobsmacked. I thought, you have to do what!?! I thought they were joking. They have to write down everything they?re doing in six-minute segments. Basically, their time is not their own. They have...
...experience the work vs. personal life tug that Samantha does in the book...