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...site. And when a student criticized an economics professor for pushing a socialist viewpoint—through the anonymous e-mail system—the professor explained his teaching in a mass message to the class and changed the course problem sets to reflect a wider perspective. Joshua R. Weinstein, vice president of Princeton’s student government and the site’s creator, said its inception “was sort of spontaneous.” Weinstein added that he got the idea for the Web site after hearing about a similar system at the University...
...shows can successfully skewer anti-Semitism, Lifetime, Optimus Prime, and William Shatner—let alone in a single episode. This glorious achievement belongs to “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” the once-banned episode of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy,” whose no-holds-barred, nothing-is-sacred schtick has made the show the biggest primetime cartoon since “The Simpsons”—and made MacFarlane a star. But for a man who has built his career on flouting the standards...
Blockbuster also announced a deal last November to acquire exclusive rights to U.S. rentals of all films from The Weinstein Co., founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein after they sold their previous company, Miramax Films, to The Walt Disney Company...
...spot is that certain quality that's unique to British filmmaking. "Successful British films have always been culturally specific in some way, but are completely universal in the way they tell their stories," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development for U.S. studio the Weinstein...
...feverish first six days of the festival. Sons of Rambow, a British comedy about a boy's obsession with the movie First Blood, sold to Paramount Vantage for just under $8 million; ThinkFilm picked up the astronaut documentary In the Shadow of the Moon for $2.5 million; the Weinstein Co. paid $4 million to win a heated bidding war for the John Cusack drama Grace is Gone, prompting the indie film company's head, Harvey Weinstein, to tell the Hollywood Reporter, "F--- it. I'm good at this. It's fun." We're pretty sure Cusack was happy about...