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...Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein began planning a two-part adaptation of Tolkien's trilogy. Soon, however, Weinstein got nervous about the cost. And Jackson got nervous when Weinstein suggested they scrunch the tale down to just one movie. In 1998 Miramax allowed the filmmaker to shop the project to other studios, but on two strict conditions: whoever bought it would have just 72 hours to repay Weinstein the $12 million he had spent on preproduction costs, and Weinstein had to be guaranteed 5% of the gross...
Along the first path, the Scottish play is being staged in the open-air courtyard of Hilles Library (a choice to which much space was devoted in last week’s first segment of this two-part feature...
...wrong," says producer Judd Apatow (Undeclared). "Most television is constructed by committee. And a show like this doesn't have a committee, so it can't be watered down." The networks are already considering new twists on reality series. ABC is positioning The Hamptons, a two-part documentary by Barbara Kopple about the Long Island resort towns, to air in June, as "the first reality mini-series." Whether The Osbournes affects how sitcoms tell funny stories is another matter. Perhaps you can't make up something that original. But it would be nice to see somebody...
What makes the system so precarious is that it depends on the order in which the ballots are counted. And that order is determined—partly by pure chance—by a two-part procedure...
...Dressy Bessy must be going for some deliberate effect. The singing only adds to Dressy Bessy’s troubles. Liz Phair can get away with gravelly vocals, leaning toward the tuneless. She does it right, making it sexy and mixing it up. But Phair never tried it with two-part harmony. It’s the uneasy polyphony between Ealom and her back-up that makes the off-pitch vocals on tracks like “Just Being Me” such an uncomfortable experience. Ealom isn’t gravelly, but the song begins to drone when...