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History and horror, crime and war, sci-fi and sexual transgression. He may have made only 13 feature films in the course of his 46-year career, but Stanley Kubrick covered a range that more prolific filmmakers might--and often did--envy. But whether the films were set in the deep past or the near future, whether their prevailing tone was comic or violent, sly or brutish, weary or idealistic, Kubrick really made the same movie over and over again--vivid, brilliant, emotionally unforgiving, imagistically unforgettable variations on the theme that preoccupied him all his mature life...
Sidney Pollack, the film director, who replaced Harvey Keitel as Victor Ziegler, the character who ties together all the evil that Cruise's character discovers and who is the most significant addition to the original story, observes that "Stanley had figured out a way to work in England for a fraction of what we pay here. While the rest of us poor bastards are able to get 16 weeks of filming for $70 million with a $20 million star, Stanley could get 45 weeks of shooting for $65 million." In short, says Pollack, "he ensured himself the luxury of trying...
Joseph Battipaglia, chairman of investment policy at Gruntal & Co., a major brokerage company, predicts an actual decline in the rate of the 30-year Treasury bond to around 5.75% by year's end and possibly to 5.5% sometime in 2000. Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management, is generally the most pessimistic of the board members, but on this subject he goes Battipaglia one better. His prediction: "A year from now [the 30-year Treasury rate] will be in the area...
...Usually when companies go public they use an investment bank like Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs to help market the stock to big investors. The banks charge a hefty sales commission -- called an underwriter's fee -- for the service, customarily around 7 percent of the total offering price. Instead Salon paid just 5 percent to San Francisco's W. R. Hambrecht. But here's the more important part. The mechanics are complicated, but common sense says that iVillage's offering price was set too cheap if it immediately quadrupled. Even though iVillage's first-day run-up was spectacular, most...
...concept hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public, and it's backed by savvy Internet investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...