Word: yorkerism
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...bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
...Ware’s most upbeat work to date. This will be a relief to those who were all certain of dying alone after reading “Jimmy Corrigan,” the story of a lonely office drone with an abusive and fragmented family. While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best: “Reading ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ made me want to lock myself in and gain...
Still, Downey and Kilmer settle easily into their roles. We’re used to seeing Downey as the blundering clown, and he’s pretty good as a fast-talking New Yorker in Hollywood. Despite his character’s sexuality, Kilmer essentially plays the same tough guy he did in “Spartan” and “The Saint...
...helicopters and a blimp at the classic, while the FLW uses more outr gimmicks like underwater "snorkelcams." "Having competing media is the best thing possible," says Iaconelli. "First ESPN does something, then Fox one-ups them. That domino effect helps the sport's visibility. We need that New Yorker who's fished once in his life to feel connected to bass fishing. Big media does that...
...family. (He refers to Kafka as "one of my predecessors.") The rest of his life is getting away from him too. His tennis game isn't what it used to be. His wife, restless in his shadow, has turned to writing and got a story in the New Yorker. She has also called off their marriage, leaving their two sons shuffling back and forth between alternate parents. Bernard advises the boys (badly) on dating and on which of the books they're studying is second rate, but he is failing Fatherhood 101. The only course he excels at is Midlife...