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...awards, voted on by industry pros, were handed out with the skew towards the mainstream that the Eisner's are known for. A complete list of winners can be found here. However, there were two highlights of the presentations. The "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" award went, most appropriately, to Jason Shiga. Like one his playful comix come to life (see TIME.comix review), Shiga sent an imposter (actually F.C. Brandt) to receive the award. Wearing a black wig and dark glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born...
...Quickly draw in a wider range of international allies on reconstruction...
...constituencies in and around Iraq to which he has no access because of suspicion and hostility towards the U.S. De Mello, for example, reportedly played the major role in persuading some of the key Shiite parties to join the Council - and also in persuading Bremer to grant it wider powers...
...summer of the end of the sequels. Box-office results for many of the retreads have been disappointing. Terminator 3, for example, raked in $44 million on the July 4 weekend. Not bad, but only $12 million more than Terminator 2 did way back in 1991 despite a much wider release (and much higher costs). The opening-weekend box office for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle fell $2 million short of the original's. Studios had been looking forward to pulling in more bucks from these seemingly indestructible series, and may now have to give up on some of those...
...success that mattered most was the kind you returned to the wider world. After he stepped down as CEO in 1980, he dedicated himself to what he called the "nonprofit world": building low-income housing at the Enterprise Foundation; serving on Harvard University's managing council; and, most famously, chairing the New York Public Library, which he helped bring back from financial ruin, along the way restoring Bryant Park, the jewel of greenery behind the library's main building in midtown Manhattan. In his private life, his third marriage, to Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, of the family that has published...