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Burns was wooed to the Lazard firm by Andre Meyer, 80, the firm's longtime senior partner and chief deal maker who retired, at least formally, late last year. But he and his successor, Michel David-Weill, 45, a French-born, fourth-generation member of the founding Lazard family, have scored other recent recruiting coups. Three weeks before the Burns announcement, Lazard startled the club by world of New York investment banking by poaching four senior men from a much larger rival, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Among them was James Glanville, 55, a Lehman managing director...
Directed by Claudia Weill...
Girl Friends is very easy to admire-from a distance. Shot on a shoestring budget with mostly unsung actors, this film was made by a young woman director working outside the studio system. Claudia Weill, co-director of Shirley Mac-Laine's documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, raised the money for Girl Friends herself, then hawked the movie to distributors (eventually landing Warner Bros.). Although the film's real subject is female friendship, Weill is not a dogmatic feminist. Girl Friends tells of both men and women who suffer the pangs of young...
...good. The problem with Girl Friends is the movie itself: Weill's film is not half so interesting as its intentions. There are some nice things in it-finely shaded performances, a couple of amusing scenes-but they cannot carry a movie that lacks such essentials as sharp writing, cinematic flair and a strong point of view. Could it be that Weill spent so much energy producing Girl Friends that she was all tuckered out once she began to shoot? The film feels tired...
Objections to the assembly on the basis of its lack of direct institutional input into University decision-making foreshadow what will doubtlessly be a great source of frustration to future representatives. There weill be issues on which the administration will steadfastly ignore student wishes. In such cases, students will have to decide whether to acquiesce, or whether they feel strongly enough to pursue the issue further. But in many cases, the mere expression of student opinion will make an impact on decisions. If one $500 fee increase is changed to a $400 increase, then the association's existence will...