Word: sid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nixon learned, you can't beat the press: last week, after the deadline for accepting the nutty ultimatum passed, Columbia said, Never mind, we didn't mean it. But they still insist it was the newspaper sniping that kept moviegoers away. "We were damned going in," says Columbia's Sid Ganis...
...Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony's Columbia Pictures, can hardly afford to be anti-high-tech. "At Sony the grand plan is combining software and hardware," he says. "On the other hand, there is a real emotional magic to going to the movies with hundreds of other...
...hottest commodities in sports television--he can handle hockey, baseball, college basketball, and even football (anybody else out there see the Independence Bowl?) in a pinch, and handle them well. I just wanted to ask him about his famous voice-crack as he called "SAFE!" when Sid Bream gave the Atlanta Braves the National League Pennant earlier this year--in his words, "I about went through the roof on that...
...burly driver of one of the rigs, had the papers to prove that he was hauling his 32 tons of gasoline to Bijeljina, one of the first ! Bosnian towns overrun by Serbs last spring. But his truck was emblazoned with the name and address of a firm in Sid, 25 miles north of Bijeljina and inside the sanction-bound state of Serbia. Despite their suspicions that Pero and his colleague were bootlegging, the Bulgarian customs officials could legally do nothing but wave them through to Serbia...
...glimpse of her photograph sets the stage for the love story which drives the film. Although a monster, Dracula is a rather compelling romantic hero--top hat, John Lennon glasses and all. Oldman successfully evokes the quirky, bordering on psychotic, vulnerability he brought to other peculiar roles in "Sid and Nancy" and "Track...