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Twenty-five years after it was first released, Fingers, the once-controversial first film of James L. Toback ’66, is making a comeback. Recently released on DVD, it was screened to a full house at the Carpenter Center for Visual Art last Friday...
...There was so little to prepare audiences for a movie like this,” said Toback, who attended the screening as part of the film archive’s “People We Like” series. “It’s now my endlessly loved bastard child whom I appear with on a long leash at various countries at various times...
...film had “permanent significance” both for its director and lead star. According to Toback, Keitel still tells him, “We have to do another Fingers...
...James Toback ’66, the writer and director, most recently, of Harvard Man, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. His other films include Black and White (1999) and Two Girls and a Guy (1997). He received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Bugsy (1991). I can answer this without hesitation: engineering and computer science. My knowledge in both these fields stopped around the middle of the 12th century. I think I feel this way because I never developed my instincts in these subjects like I did in about every other subject of importance. The more time has gone...
...complex on Beijing's prestigious Changan Avenue?the first of up to 100 clubs Bally plans to build in China over the next four years through a joint venture with China Sports Industries. Lack of competition is one reason Bally is wading in, says chief operating officer Paul Toback. The corpulent U.S. has 18,000 health clubs. China has fewer than 20 freestanding fitness centers catering to the middle class. "We were also very encouraged to see how many large Western companies had made entries in China," says Toback, "chief among them McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza...