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...likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites) and most actors (if he likes Take 1, he prints it and goes to the next scene). Hey, it's only a movie. And often--say, Breezy, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, to skim five off the top--they are movies that have the craft and heart of classic Hollywood, without that musty antique odor...
...from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom line. Yet Kozlowski and CFO Mark H. Swartz could be granted parole after just six years in prison...