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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Bob Balaban Interview Transcript (Aug '01) - Interview - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About ...
BOB BALABAN: I studied at the Second City while I was in high school in the teenage workshop led by the fabulous originator of Second City Viola Scolin.
BOB BALABAN: And it?s interesting because they were both fantastic in their roles and absolutely right for their parts and they weren?t like elephants sitting on the movie.
BOB BALABAN: I?m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
stumpedmagazine.com /Interviews/bob-balaban-transcript.html   (2791 words)

  
 M. Schorr and M. Balaban: CEU M.A. thesis, 1998
Balaban's and Schorr's brilliant and fruitful lives indicate the importance of their scientific heritage, their works have not been studied and his publications in Jewish newspaper "Chwila" are not even included in their bibliographies.
Balaban was born in 1874 in Lwow (Lviv) in Austria-Hungary's centre of Ukrainian-Polish Galicia.
Balaban wrote diaries being very interested in history since the gymnasium years and childhood since Meir's father was very fond of history and this family devotion to this subject revealed itself later in Meir's career.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/thesis.htm   (10179 words)

  
 Home Page
Balaban brothers Barney and A. J dreamed of operating 5000 seat Movie Palaces so, in 1916, they joined family friends Sam and Morris Katz to form the Balaban and Katz Theater Corporation.
Balaban and Katz produced live stage shows between the movies, with the likes of Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman.
Balaban is producing a documentary for television about the Uptown Theater and the Balaban and Katz Company as a whole.
www.balabanandkatzfoundation.com /index.html   (350 words)

  
 The Bulletin Online
John Balaban, poet-in-residence and professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at NC State, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2003-2004.
During the Fellowship period, Balaban will continue to work on his own poetry as well as begin a new English translation of Nguyen Du's classic, “The Tale of Kieu,” the early 19th century novel-in-verse that is the hallmark of Vietnamese poetry.
Balaban is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award.
www.ncsu.edu /BulletinOnline/04_03/balaban.htm   (180 words)

  
 Restaurants- Vintage Balaban's
Take Balaban's barramundi, a saltwater species native to Australia and the centerpiece of one of the entrées chef Dan Joyce debuted on the menu with the advent of 2006.
Café Balaban walks a fine line of past-present-future cuisine, and right now it is doing so very, very well.
An appetizer of seared, coriander-encrusted tuna dances nimbly on the tongue alongside sticky rice and a pleasing pile of seaweed salad.
www.riverfronttimes.com /Issues/2006-03-01/dining/cafe.html   (823 words)

  
 IGN: An Interview with Bob Balaban
Sam Katz, who was the partner in Balaban and Katz – who was at that point married to my aunt – went off to run MGM and become head of production for many years, including the musical years with all those great things they did in Arthur Freed's musical unit.
BALABAN: No, because it all emanates from the head, and Christopher is a supremely kind, generous, sort of magical person, and he only puts people around him who – see, you have to trust a lot of these things.
BALABAN: Oh gosh, no. I mean, there's no question that Christopher controls absolutely everything, but he does it just by his presence, and by the fact that he cast you, and by the fact that he knew to put you in this situation.
movies.ign.com /articles/387/387771p1.html   (3331 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Balaban unleashes hilarious 'McGrowl'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Living in Manhattan and traveling much of the year, Balaban and his wife decided it wouldn't be fair to the dog.
Balaban has almost finished book two, which includes an important school dog show and a Hamlet-like dog soliloquy on whether 'tis better to chase or not chase a cat.
If the books are a hit and Scholastic asks him to extend the series, Balaban finally might be forced to adopt what he and his family are missing.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002-08-28-balaban_x.htm   (378 words)

  
 Poetry Daily Feature: John Balaban - Path, Crooked Path   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes that together have won the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Prize, a National Poetry Series selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award.
Balaban is poet in residence and professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
"Balaban's emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human – by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic.
www.poems.com /pathcbal.htm   (322 words)

  
 Bob Balaban Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Balaban stumbled a bit with his sophomore feature, "My Boyfriend's Back" (1993), a fl romantic comedy about a lovelorn teen who returns from the grave as a zombie to keep a date with the girl of his dreams.
Balaban’s piece “No Joking” focused on what is protected as free speech and what isn’t, using comedians Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin as examples.
Balaban was then set to be seen in “Trust the Man” (2006), a dramatic-comedy about the romantic escapades of two Manhattan couples, and “For Your Consideration” (2006), a parody focusing on the making of an independent movie and the cast whose lives are turned upside down when their performances are deemed awards-worthy.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195461   (1670 words)

  
 DBLP: Mira Balaban
Mira Balaban, Azzam Maraee: Consistency of UML Class Diagrams with Hierarchy Constraints.
Mira Balaban, Eli Barzilay, Michael Elhadad: Abstraction as a means for end-user computing in creative applications.
Mira Balaban, Adi Eyal: DFL - A Hybrid Integration of Descriptions and Rules, Using F-Logic as an Underlying Semantics.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Balaban:Mira.html   (467 words)

  
 DVDFILE.COM: Ten Questions - Bob Balaban
Balaban launched a successful career as a director, helming such television fare as Tales from the Darkside and Amazing Stories before moving into feature films with his 1989 cult hit, Parents.
Balaban can currently be seen on a number of new DVD releases, most notably DreamWorks' The Mexican, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, which premieres on DVD this August 7
We recently had a chance to chat with Balaban about his career, the importance of preserving the film medium, and what he didn't know about the DVD release of his film Parents...
www.dvdfile.com /news/special_report/ten_questions/balaban_bob   (287 words)

  
 Bob Balaban
Born in Chicago, Bob Balaban is the son of Elmer Balaban, who was one of seven brothers who built Chicago’s first "super-colossal" theaters.
Balaban continued to act, landing a variety of character roles requiring middle-aged, soft-spoken, balding men.
Balaban lives in New York City with his wife, writer Lynn Grossman, and his daughters, Hazel and Mariah.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3709   (482 words)

  
 Balaban   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Balaban, E., Avian brain chimeras as a tool for studying species behavioral differences.
Gahr, M. and Balaban, E. The development of a species difference in the local distribution of brain estrogen receptive cells.
Balaban, E., Alper, J.S. and Kasmon, Y.L., Mean genes and the biology of aggression: A critical review of recent animal and
www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/biology/Balaban.html   (189 words)

  
 NPR : Poet JOHN BALABAN has translated the poetry of an 18th century Vietnamese concubine in the new...
Poet JOHN BALABAN has translated the poetry of an 18th century Vietnamese concubine in the new...
BALABAN was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war, and went back to the country after the war to collect and preserve Vietnamese folk poetry.
BALABAN is also the author of a memoir, and of several books of his own poetry.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1116548   (162 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Villa fans facing a wait to see £6m Balaban
Balaban, who will sign for Villa if he can agree personal terms, had been lined up to play in tomorrow's friendly clash with Racing Santander in Spain.
Balaban could soon be playing alongside the Villa defender, who is looking to improve on a record of seven goals in seven games for the Republic.
Balaban's next outing could then be in a Villa shirt at White Hart Lane.
www.soccernet.com /england/news/2001/0811/20010811avfcbalaban.html   (410 words)

  
 Bob Balaban @ Filmbug UK
Balaban made his motion picture debut in John Schlesinger's Academy Award winning Midnight Cowboy (as the homosexual who propositions Jon Voight's title character in the movie theater).
Balaban's credits also include co-starring opposite Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt in The Mexican, co-starring opposite Robin Williams in Jakob the Liar, 2010, Clockwatchers, Ghost World and will next be seen in Plan B opposite Diane Keaton and Robert Altman's Gosford Park (on which he also serves as a co-producer).
Balaban commenced his secondary career behind the cameras when he directed his first work -- a witty short entitled SPFX 1140.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/35747   (626 words)

  
 biography, Dr. Robert S. Balaban, 99 medicine for the public lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Balaban is an active member of numerous professional associations, including the American Physiological Society, the Biophysical Society, and the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Balaban has organized professional symposia and serves on numerous scientific advisory boards.
Balaban has received prestigious honors for his work including a Gold Medal from the Society of Magnetic Resonance, a Public Health Service Superior Service Award, and most recently, an NIH Director's Award.
www.cc.nih.gov /about/news/mfp/mfp99/99bios/balaban.html   (344 words)

  
 Balaban Publications
Balaban, M.T., Anthony, B.J., and Graham, F.K. Prestimulation effects on blink and
Balaban, M. and Taussig, H. Salience of fear in the affective modulation of the
Wisniewski, A. L., Balaban, M. T., Abbett, K. J., Chung, C. T., and Tan, J. Variation in functional cerebral asymmetry across the menstrual cycle.
www.eou.edu /psych/mb/publ.html   (553 words)

  
 Mira Balaban - Publication list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mira Balaban and Peretz Shoval: "Resolving the "Weak Status" of Weak Entity Types in Entity Relationship Schemas", ER-99, pp.
Mira Balaban and Eli Barzilay and Michael Elhadad: "Abstraction as a Means for End-User Computing in Creative Applications", IEEE Trans.
Mira Balaban: "The F-Logic Approach for Description Languages", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 15, pp.
www.cs.bgu.ac.il /~mira/pub-list.html   (484 words)

  
 Bob Balaban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bob Balaban (born August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and director.
Balaban later wrote a book about his experience shooting this film, called Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary.
In 1998 Balban made a guest appearing in the sitcom Friends as Phoebe's Dad Frank Buffay in "The One With Joey's Bag".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Balaban   (351 words)

  
 The Poetry Center at Smith College -- Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Poet & translator John Balaban is the recipient of many honors, including the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award, and two nominations for the National Book Award.
A conscientious objector in Vietnam during the war who worked to bring war-injured children medical care, Balaban’s poetry combines the personal experiences of war, nature, and family life with the landscapes of other poets across history and continents.
Balaban served as president of the American Literary Translators Association, and currently teaches English and serves as poet-in-residence at North Carolina State in Raleigh.
www.smith.edu /poetrycenter/bios.php?name=jbalaban   (282 words)

  
 B-M Bio: Nissan Balaban   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In addition, Balaban is client leader to several of MS Business Communication’s strategic clients.
Balaban has developed brand awareness and media relations programs, conducted media training, co-coordinated media tours, carried out on-site communications support and worked to develop coalitions to advance client interests.
Before co-founding MS Business Communication, Balaban was managing director of a large Israeli consumer product marketing organization and has many years’ experience working as an organizational and marketing consultant and in the publishing and printing industry in Brazil, Israel, Germany, USA and England.
www.burson-marsteller.com /pages/bios/balaban   (374 words)

  
 Bob Balaban
A diminutive supporting player of stage and screen cum director of quirky genre TV and features, Balaban began working with Chicago's celebrated Second City troupe while still in high school.
He made a memorable film debut as a student who has a bathroom encounter with Jon Voight in "Midnight Cowboy" (1969).
Balaban has played a wide range of roles: an overzealous government investigator ("Absence of Malice", 1981); a crafty prosecuting attorney ("Prince of the City", 1981), and assorted nerds and nice guys....
www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/195461   (899 words)

  
 John Balaban, Poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
“Balaban's language is lyrical and lovely, lifting us beyond the morass of our complicated lives, instilling in our hearts the hope of an exalted existence here on earth.”—Publishers Weekly
“Balaban's emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human—by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic.
During the Vietnam War, Balaban volunteered as a civilian conscientious objector, first as a teacher of descriptive linguistics at a Vietnamese university and then, after the university was bombed in the Tet Offensive, as the Field Representative for a group of Americans who funded the treatment of war-injured children.
www.blueflowerarts.com /jbalaban.html   (564 words)

  
 John Balaban
John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award.
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Balaban is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English in the
www.johnbalaban.com   (151 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mcgrowl: Beware Of Dog: Books: Bob Balaban   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
by Bob Balaban "Thomas Wiggins, you are not leaving this house until you put every single thing back in that drawer and comb your hair..." (more)
Film producer, director and actor Balaban launches the McGrowl series with this faltering farce introducing fifth-grader Thomas and his "best and only friend," Violet.
Just after his birthday, on which Thomas once again fails to receive the one present he wants a dog he and Violet find a stray as they walk home during a thunder and lightning storm.
www.amazon.com /Mcgrowl-Beware-Dog-Bob-Balaban/dp/0439401372   (1781 words)

  
 Cafe Balaban in St. Louis, MO - AOL City Guide
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cityguide.aol.com /stlouis/restaurants/cafe-balaban/v-111723799   (367 words)

  
 Liane Balaban - Moviefone
Liane Balaban picture from the movie - Liane Balaban movie stills...
Before they hit it big, Matthew McConaughey, Jen Aniston and others hammed it up in horror flicks.
Liane Balaban - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Liane Balaban Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/liane-balaban/272311/main?_pgtyp=pdct   (92 words)

  
 Looseleaf Software Inc. - Looseleaf Software, Inc. Has Closed Its Doors (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As of August 1, 2005, Looseleaf Software is closing its doors for business of all kinds.
The President of Looseleaf, Bob Balaban, has taken a job at IBM.
Bob will be a Senior Consulting IT Specialist in the Business Transformation Team, part of the IBM Software Group.
www.looseleaf.net.cob-web.org:8888   (231 words)

  
 Bob Balaban   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Son of Elmer Balaban (1909-2001) who was last surviving of seven Balaban...
Report to the Commissioner (1975) (as Robert Balaban)....
Find where Bob Balaban is credited alongside another name
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