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...Angeles. After struggling as a young stand-up comic under the name Jack Roy, he quit show business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack and Back to School?hits that brought him much respect...
Cornell had no more luck reining in the Crimson’s receivers. While frequent double coverage from the Big Red held Edwards to 48 yards on three catches, Mazza wreaked havoc on the Cornell secondary, catching nine passes for 194 yards and two touchdowns...
...woman to head production at a major studio. Lansing is the first to admit that there's no surefire way of predicting the next blockbuster. "Sometimes you can make all of the right decisions, and the movie gods will shine on you. Other times they don't," she says. "Luck is needed in nearly every business, but even more so in this one, where you have to catch the zeitgeist and the zeitgeist moves so quickly...
...certainly had her share of luck. Lansing has been responsible for bankrolling many of the past decade's biggest hits (Titanic, Forrest Gump, Braveheart). But Paramount has recently faced rocky times, scoring well with quirky, smaller films such as Mean Girls and School of Rock while stumbling with big-budget titles like the remake of The Stepford Wives and the effects-heavy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...
...minutes. If your PC and your TV both have S-Video ports, you can use an S-Video cable to connect them--and watch your movie on the bigger screen. Sadly, I never could get Stuart Little to show up on our 27-in. set. But we're in luck, I tell the kids: Mr. Video down the street has it on DVD. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner