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Fisher says he never imagined that he would have a role in the dramatic developments that would occur in the Middle East. But that changed when one of his tennis partners casually asked him a question during a match near their summer homes on Martha's Vineyard. Fisher's partner was then-Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, and the content of the question went far beyond the court's two baselines...
Spike Lee does Nike, GAP, and Levi's advertisments, has started a company to market merchandise based on his films and has spent over a million dollars for a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. None of these actions, by themselves, are objects of condemnation. But when a person declares, as Lee has done, that he doesn't care about mainstream Hollywood and strongly implies that he is above petty commericial interests, such actions begin to to take on the aura of self-indulgent hypocrisy. Lee's latest work, Mo' Better Blues, has a similar air about...
...maybe in 100 years." Born and raised outside Berlin, he fled with his mother to the West in 1949; sneaking across the border, they stumbled, just short of West German territory, into a Soviet soldier -- who let them go. Standing outside his house today, near a sunny Swabian vineyard, Hoell muses about going home sometime to the Brandenburg marsh and lake country...
Murphy then wrote a story outline called The Quest, about a black prince searching for true love, which eventually became Coming to America. Buchwald went to see the picture while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, and was struck by its similarity to his proposal. Murphy, who received screen credit as the creator of the story, testified in a written deposition last month that he conceived the idea for the film in the wake of a painful romantic breakup. But Judge Harvey Schneider ruled that the parallels were substantial and that Paramount and Murphy had known about Buchwald's original story...
Lower quality of life for whom? People with second homes on Martha's Vineyard? Do they really deserve a multi-billion dollar government handout...