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...tough sell. "Harvey offered very severe terms," says Ken Kamins, Jackson's agent at ICM. "Also, people thought Peter was untested for something of this size." Mark Ordesky knew better. An executive at New Line--and an old friend of Jackson's--Ordesky championed Lord of the Rings to his bosses, Shaye and Lynne. "Everybody around the world knew about this series of books," says Shaye, who suggested they should make three movies. "It was so wonderfully presold. It was like Superman or Batman." By making them all at once, they reasoned, the cost per film would be diminished; most...
...Still, it might get harder to muddle through in the future, since there are indications that the most reliable part of Japan's economic engine?its high-profile export industries?is under unprecedented attack. "Japan's competitive positioning is declining internationally," says Ken Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia in Tokyo. "There have been huge productivity gains in the U.S., while China has lower labor costs. Japan is getting it from every side. There is no place for them to hide...
Nearly three years after developing a rare, unclassified disease of the autonomic nervous system which has rendered her unable to work, attend school or live alone, Katrina R. Tangen, Class of 2001, and her father Ken have recorded a Christmas CD to raise funds to help finance her medical and living expenses...
...Although Ken said he hopes to raise between $5,000 to $10,000 from the sale of “Katrina’s Christmas Wish,” which features a mix of original and classic Christmas songs like “Winter Wonderland,” he said he had another objective in mind when they conceived the idea last spring...
...first half, we probably played the best defense we had all year,” said Yale linebacker Ken Estrera. “But then the quarterback change threw us off. It shouldn’t have...