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Consider the films currently in development: Warner Brothers is anticipating huge returns on their $250 million investment in the new “Superman” movie; Fox has high hopes for the third installment of its “X-Men” franchise; Disney is banking on “Cars” to justify the incredible expense of their Pixar acquisition; and Paramount is betting Tom Cruise’s tabloid antics won’t sink “Mission Impossible...
Former Virginia Governor and potential 2008 presidential candidate Mark Warner will be this year’s recipient of the Harvard College Democrats’ annual “Leadership Award.” Warner, who as a possible candidate from a southern state is widely expected to appeal to moderate Republicans and independents, will receive the honor at the Dems’ gala in April. According to the president of the Harvard College Democrats, Eric P. Lesser ’07, the Dems chose to honor Warner because “he embodies what we hope...
...film school who also felt a kinship with Bruce Conner, Scott Bartlett and other members of San Francisco?s vital avant-garde scene, he had made two features before Star Wars. In 1971 he hatched the stainless-steel-cool, THX138 -a project received by its sponsors at Warner Bros. with so much bafflement and meddling that it stirred in Lucas a resolve to be a truly independent filmmaker. In 1973 he moved to the middle with American Graffiti, a feel-good blast of instant-nostalgia (it re-imagined a California car culture only a decade in the past...
...stark contradiction between two senior Army officers - Col. Pappas and Maj. Gen. Miller - has upset lawmakers on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Sen. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced at a hearing that he expected to have Maj. Gen. Miller testify before his panel at an unspecified date. Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who also sits on the committee, made an even more pointed comment, saying, "Shame on us if we allow a story to go forward that is not true and the... dog handlers are paying the price...
...make it easier to oblige Maj. Gen. Miller to appear before the committee, both chairman Warner and Carl Levin of Michigan, its top Democrat, recently asked the Army to delay Maj. Gen. Miller's planned retirement. As for Pappas, the Army reprimanded and fined him last May for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, citing his dereliction of duty...