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...time Jeff Skoll, CEO of the newly formed film company Participant Productions, got the script for Good Night, and Good Luck--about the showdown between heralded 1950s news anchor Edward R. Murrow and infamous communist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy--it had been turned down by every studio in Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally...
Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country and Syriana came out of Participant's partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment (a division of Time Warner, which owns TIME). "I know these movies carry more risk than something like Dukes of Hazzard, but they are movies with a purpose," says Warner Bros. president and coo Alan Horn. Although Horn is also actively involved in myriad political and social causes, he was able to partner with Skoll because of the entrepreneur's willingness to put up half the money and assume half the risk, which made the partnership more appealing...
...unclear whether the risks are paying off--at least financially. The black-and-white quasi-biopic Good Night, and Good Luck cost a modest $7 million and has earned $18 million at the box office to date. But North Country, the story of a single mother whose barbaric treatment in a Minnesota mine leads to the first sexual-harassment class action in the country, has been a commercial disappointment, so far recouping just half its $35 million budget...
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...last night. Daigneau made 32 saves in the winning effort, including several crucial stops down the stretch. He got some help from his defense as well, with the Crimson (8-5-1, 7-4-0 ECAC) blocking 11 shots. But, at times, it just seemed as if all the luck was on Harvard’s side. In addition to hitting the goal frame multiple times, UNH (9-5-3, 6-3-2 Hockey East) also sent a couple of shots through the crease that were just inches from crossing the goal line—including one from winger Jacob...