Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...peaceful minds, no hang-ups. And I realize that stability will never create the hunger it takes to go beyond the limits where others have been. For that, you have to be a little off. Something has to happen in your childhood that you say, 'I'm going to make up for this.' You don't even know what it is. Maybe I was competitive with my brother or trying to prove something to my father. But it doesn't really matter. Something was there that made me hungry...
...competing, training, doing seminars all over the world, winning the top trophies. The first time is the best. Fabulous! Even the second and third time, rubbing it in, letting them know you are here to stay. But then, all of a sudden -- zap! -- it is not enough anymore to make you happy. You say to yourself, 'Now what? I know that I don't have anything much better to do, but I am going to quit.' I wanted to go again for discomfort, to create the old hunger, to get into acting. Because I knew it was going to happen...
...enough to think about the script and the director," he says. "I must ask, Who is the studio? What is the international program? How much money do they have to spend on promotion? I don't want to make a decision to work | hard at something, to believe in something 100% and then have an executive in there who doesn't believe in spending a lot of money. I've had that happen. Predator opened at $12 million, and Barry Diller ((who runs 20th Century Fox)) said, 'We don't want to support the second week of the movie...
Megarich financier Kirk Kerkorian knows how to make a fortune in the glitter mills of Las Vegas and Los Angeles, but can he do it in gritty Detroit? Last week Chrysler said the Beverly Hills investor had accumulated more than 9% of the troubled automaker's stock at an estimated cost of $250 million. Kerkorian met with Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca earlier this month and professed support for the company's management but refused to sign a "standstill" agreement to stop increasing his stake, a Chrysler spokesman disclosed. Girding for a possible takeover bid, Chrysler has strengthened its poison-pill...
...insurer, announced it will convert to a stock-owned company. The $500 million in additional capital that chairman Richard Jenrette expects to raise through the stock sale will help offset large losses from risky ventures: junk bonds, real estate and high-interest guaranteed- investment contracts. It will also make it easier for the company to diversify...