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  • How the Tumultuous Marriage of Miramax and Disney Failed

    03/05/2005 11:32:06 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 19 replies · 1,048+ views
    New York Times ^ | March 6, 2005 | LAURA M. HOLSON
    LOS ANGELES, March 5 - Partygoers in elegant evening wear scurried to take their seats at tables decorated with delicate white orchids in the grand hall of the Pacific Design Center here. It was the night before the Academy Awards, and perhaps the last affair that Harvey and Bob Weinstein would throw for the 25-year-old Miramax Films. "No event or person will ever break up the brothers Weinstein," Bob Weinstein declared to the assembled glitterati, dismissing critics, he said, who now believe that the Weinstein era is over. Sitting in somber silence, among the nearly 600 guests, were Leonardo DiCaprio,...
  • Controversy dogs 'Soldiers' director (Buffalo Soldiers)

    07/30/2003 11:31:11 AM PDT · by weegee · 20 replies · 452+ views
    CNN ^ | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 Posted: 4:28 PM EDT (2028 GMT) | By Meriah Doty
    <p>ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Gregor Jordan set out to make a film that teasingly mocked the military.</p> <p>Little did he know he would come under a firestorm from media pundits, the military and those who uphold the memory of America's first all-black cavalry unit, which was nicknamed the Buffalo Soldiers -- also the title of his new movie.</p>