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...Oxford University faculty member is coaching the Harvard University Choir group as it prepares to sing the American debut of French composer Mondonville's De Profondis...
...little uptight, unwilling to risk spilling a favorite story idea or sounding less than omniscient. A few of our key decisions had to take place off-camera, but by the end of the week many staff members were becoming quite casual. Without waiting for the reviews, I think our debut in immersion video was considerably less exciting than a good basketball game but noticeably better than a bad day's debate in the Congress. And I am proud of our staff: no one said "Hi, Mom!" all week...
...testing that instinct in her directorial debut with Little Man Tate, the story of a child prodigy (Adam Hann-Byrd), his caring mother (Foster) and a psychiatrist (Dianne Wiest). The film is due in the fall, but this month the new auteur is ecstatic. "I'm jammin'," she says. "It's getting a little hectic, but it's coming along great...
Beirut-born Kassar and his partner Andrew Vajna were successful foreign distributors when they launched Carolco in 1976. They hit pay dirt with Rambo's debut in 1982 and eventually took the studio public at $9 a share. In 1989 Vajna sold most of his 36% stake to Kassar in a complex deal involving shell companies in Panama and the Netherlands Antilles. Last October Kassar resold some of his shares to Carolco for $13 each, or 60% higher than the market price. That brought him $11 million, or 80% of the studio's 1989 net income, which prompted angry shareholders...
Four years ago, Mark Salzman made an enviable debut as a writer. Iron and Silk was an account of the two years he spent in Hunan teaching English to Chinese medical students. A young man's book, it was modest and graceful and, most important, managed to reflect how the author's own openness and charm brought out the candor in the reserved Chinese people he encountered...