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Others are not so sure. "He's a total enigma to me," says former Mayor Charlotte Townsend. To David Maradei, a former city council member and Townsend ally, "He's a mayor without vision. Like Reagan, he's an ideologue." Adds Sandy Swain, one of six members of the planning commission given their walking papers by the new mayor: "He's a vindictive man. You don't want to get on his hit list...
...someone forget to inform Robert Townsend that a Hollywood picture costs serious money, like $15 million? Why else would anyone have the nerve to launch a movie on a savings account of just $20,000? For Townsend, the film's director and star, a strong entrepreneurial urge overcame weak financing. When the director's cash ran out, he simply started using his two credit cards. Then he applied for twelve more of them to pay for film, costumes, rental equipment and food. He even paid his actors by filling up their gas tanks and charging it. His artful dodging finally...
Directors and producers with Townsend's kind of moxie are storming the film industry like the Bedouin warriors in Beau Geste. No longer do the seven major studios and several so-called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films were produced worldwide in 1986, an increase of nearly 60% from the previous year. While such independent cinema was once synonymous with sexploitation pictures and artsy foreign films, the new wave of modestly budgeted movies is gaining widespread acceptance at the multiplexes in Everytown, U.S.A...
...port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
...Brick, University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...