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...government will honor his work with its prestigious Israel Prize for lifetime achievement. Perhaps his most memorable photograph is one of young Israeli paratroopers at Jerusalem's Western Wall in 1967, just minutes after fighting had ceased. It quickly became an emblem of Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day...
...agents; they can't extort you for a sequel. And as The Simpsons' Matt Groening has said, "Animated characters don't get busted, and they don't get old." As for the animators, salaries are a little higher than when Jones joined Warner in 1933 for $18.50 a six-day week. But until DreamWorks entered the picture, creators of even the most boffo animated films got no royalties. George Lucas made zillions from the Star Wars rerelease; the three directors of the 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians got none of the hundreds of millions it made in reissues...
...project in which crew members say conditions are more difficult is Titanic, the $180 million extravaganza that director James Cameron is trying to finish in time for its scheduled July release. Crews on the film have routinely packed more than 80 hours of work into six-day weeks, sometimes going as long as two weeks without a break. "I think it's the closest thing to slavery that I've ever laid my eyes on," says Elizabeth Bolden, a set rigger who spent a month on Titanic's Mexico location...
Since Israel won the Six-Day War in 1967, American Jews have increasingly "come out" and asserted their Jewish identities in public, New York Times columnist Frank Rich '71 told about 50 people at Hillel last night...
Jiang finds himself thrust into the limelight in what already promises to be a watershed year in Chinese affairs. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will pay her maiden call at his office this week. Despite the official six-day period of mourning, Beijing quickly cabled Albright that they wished the meeting to go ahead. "They want to take her measure, and they want to show that it's business as usual," says a senior State Department official. Vice President Al Gore is expected in March. The national parliament opens its annual session that month, and the 15th Party Congress...