Word: writer
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...director, Schumacher effectively conveys the down-and-dirty grit of New York, but as writer he should have spent more time exploring the down-and-dirty grit of his protagonists. The screenplay itself does precious little to expand upon the two stereotypes of a bigot and a drag queen. That task falls into the actors hands. Fortunately, De Niro and Hoffman have very capable hands indeed, and they almost manage to elevate the script in spite of itself not quite, but almost...
...first time. The impetus was an unemployment report that contained the best possible scenario for Wall street - continued healthy job growth but no sign of wage inflation. "In investor psychology, the unemployment figures are the most important of all economic indicators," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "It indicates both the strength of the economy and the potential for inflation, and Friday's report showed a healthy economy with no sign of inflation. That means the Fed has no reason to raise interest rates at least through the first quarter of next year...
...only know what I read in the papers," said the writer of the Wag the Dog screenplay. "[And] I don't read the papers...
Jennings, the anchor and senior editor for ABC's World News Tonight, shared the stage with his co-writer, Todd Brewster, a former writer and correspondent for Life Magazine...
...will pay $4.5 billion in order to come out of bankruptcy - a figure that includes $3.2 billion in damages to women who claim they were injured by the chemical giant's negligence. "This is one of the great cases of product liability in American legal history," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The whole case is very controversial; there are so many sympathetic plaintiffs saying they've suffered a variety of health problems." There are also conflicting reports surfacing from the scientific community - the most recent of which, in June's Journal of the National Academy of Sciences, found...