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...Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan won for ?The Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place.? In 1983, the third year of the Razzies, the Worst Actress and Actor booby-prizes went to Pia Zadora for ?The Butterfly? and, for ?Inchon? ... guess ... Laurence Olivier...
...Saskatchewan?s own Sanney Leung. With his ?staff of ten ... fingers,? Saint Sanney synopsizes the day?s gossip, provides links to HK news and reviews (including mine from TIME?s Asian edition) and runs readers? polls like ?I Wouldn?t Mind Being Married for 55 Hours to...? (the winners: actor Louis Koo for the women, Twins? Gillian Chung for men). I use the site regularly, with awe and gratitude...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each - the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
...Because they had made such a huge investment, the VH1 execs quickly decided I couldn't be trusted as the head writer. Or the No. 2 writer. Then they decided, after watching the animated pilot, that I was such a bad actor I couldn't play myself - in a voice-over. So they hired Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) to play me, which, oddly, we both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise...
While Redford and Weinstein constitute the Beauty-and-the-Beast heart of the story, much of Biskind's narrative revolves around the less well known (and, frankly, less colorful) figures responsible for the growth of indie-film distribution. As a work of history, it's not comprehensive: indie actor Ethan Hawke merits nearly a dozen lengthy references, while groundbreaking documentarians Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) are barely mentioned. And Biskind found some sources reluctant to talk openly about more recent controversies. "There was a clarity of recollections," he admits, "but also a clash...