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 Encyclopedia: The Firm (film)
The Firm is a legal thriller film released in 1993, directed by Sydney Pollack, and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, and David Strathairn.
They reveal that the Firm is a front for the Mafia and does all the crime family's legal work, engages in corruption, money laundering and has engaged in murder.
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Firm-%28film%29   (1012 words)

  
 Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "The Dark Side of Erin Brockovich."
To summarize the film, in 1993 Miss Brockovich, a legal assistant with the Los Angeles area firm of Masry & Vittitoe, began lining up about 650 current or past residents of the tiny Southern California desert town of Hinkley.
The real Brockovich: Erin Brockovich and her law firm exploited both the system and their clients.
Further, Miss Brockovich's small firm had brought in an Iowa-class battleship in the form of Thomas V. Girardi, a specialist in toxic pollution suits who makes everybody's short list of the most powerful attorneys in the United States.
www.fumento.com /erinpost.html   (1438 words)

  
 DVD review of And Then There Were None (VCI) - DVD Town
In 1993, audiences were flummoxed by the fact that the filmmakers of "The Firm" had changed the ending of John Grisham’s novel.
This sort of thing happened close to 50 years before "The Firm" with "And Then There Were None." The film not only departs from the source novel in the way that it concludes, but it also amps up the blooming relationship between the two most attractive characters in the novel.
This film is a good lesson on how an ensemble cast is supposed to act: without vanity and with respect towards one another’s contributions to a film’s final impact.
www.dvdtown.com /review/And_Then_There_Were_None__VCI_/8141/308   (1696 words)

  
 ** Media & Politics **
In 1993, Carville was honored as Campaign Manager of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants for his leadership of Clinton's fearsome and intense "War Room" at Clinton headquarters in Little Rock-- documented in the feature-length Academy Award-nominated film of that campaign, The War Room.
A disastrous ad was run the Progressive Conservatives in the 1993 Canadian election emphasizing Liberal leader Jean Chrétien's facial disability.
In 1993, Rove began advising George W. Bush's gubernatorial campaign.
www.mediumismessage.com /MP.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Moviefone: The Firm Movie: MAIN
Synopsis: The Firm, acclaimed British television director Alan Clarke's last feature film, deals with the football hooliganism that was such a serious problem in England during the 1980s.
The Firm (1993): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Firm (1993)...
movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1099630   (214 words)

  
 Chicago Divorce Lawyers LeVine Wittenberg & Shugran, Illinois Child Custody Laws, Spousal Support Attorneys Homewood, Joliet, IL
Steven G. Wittenberg, the son of Michael P. Wittenberg, joined the firm after graduating Phi Betta Kappa and cum laude from the University of Illinois in 1993 and graduating from Chicago Kent Law School in 1996.
LeVine, Wittenberg, and Shugan, Ltd. is a unique firm that is based on team work and a philosophy that encourages all members of the firm to contribute to each and every case.
Elissa Wittenberg Libman  joined the firm as consulting counsel in 2004.
www.levinewittenbergshugan.com /CM/Custom/TOCAttorneys.asp   (790 words)

  
 Duffy's List of Selected FVL VHS Titles (no kids' videos)
Videorecording of the motion picture produced in 1993.
NOTE Video Grammy award-winning producer Michael Nesmith presents this outrageous contemporary comedy combining the seedy world of automobile repossession with science fiction.
And Ford's brilliant direction, said The Hollywood Reporter, "adds one more to the long list of his superb achievements as one of--if not the finest director in the world." VHS videotape.
gort.ucsd.edu /dtweedy/FVLMoviesNoKids'.html   (14991 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Film Film star Hunter expecting twins
Hunter rose to global stardom with her Oscar-winning performance as a mute woman in The Piano in 1993, a year which saw her nominated a second time, for her supporting role in The Firm.
The star of The Piano and The Firm has been dating British actor Gordon MacDonald since 2004.
Last year, Hunter won her fourth Oscar nomination in 2004 for Thirteen, playing the mother of a wayward teenager.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4127306.stm   (162 words)

  
 The New York Times > Movies > Michael Moore Is Ready for His Close-Up
"We have gone through every single word of this film — literally every word — and verified its accuracy," said Joanne Doroshow, a public interest lawyer and filmmaker who shared in a 1993 Oscar for documentaries and who joined the fact-checking effort last month.
Moore is on firm ground in arguing that the Bushes, like many prominent Texas families with oil interests, have profited handsomely from their relationships with prominent Saudis, including members of the royal family and of the large and fabulously wealthy bin Laden clan, which has insisted it long ago disowned Osama.
Doroshow is responsible for preparing what she calls a "fact-checking bible," with material ranging from newspaper and magazine articles to copies of the Federal Register, that will allow the film's lawyers and publicists to provide backup for its allegations.
www.nytimes.com /2004/06/20/movies/20SHEN.html?pagewanted=all&ei=5007&en=906cd89473ac07fc&ex=1403064000&partner=USERLAND   (2005 words)

  
 John Grisham
Nicknamed "Hurricane Grisham" by journalists, he has taken Hollywood by storm as well: Grisham's made-for-adaptation legal thrillers have spawned the blockbusters The Firm (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Client (1994), and A Time to Kill (1996), inspiring Film Comment to concede that he may be one of cinema's new auteurs.
Grisham's next work, The Client (1994), spawned both a Joel Schumacher film starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones and a television series.
Grisham spent one year on the team at Northwest Mississippi Junior College in nearby Senatobia.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P166848   (955 words)

  
 Business Wire: Entertainment Industry Veteran Don Ohlmeyer Joi... @ HighBeam Research
Ohlmeyer has also held several other executive and production positions at NBC, as well as at ABC, where he produced and directed several Olympic broadcasts and produced `ABC Monday Night Football.' From 1982 to 1993, he operated Ohlmeyer Communications Company, a full-service advertising agency and marketing firm.
Ohlmeyer has been honored with 16 Emmys, two Peabody Awards, the Cine Golden Eagle Award, the Miami Film Festival Award, the National Film Board Award, the Glaad Media Award, and three Humanitas Prizes.
"Don's unparalleled experience in the entertainment industry is invaluable to us as we continue to create a consumer-centric value proposition for the wireless user," said John A. Lack, i3 Mobile's President and CEO.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:74927237&refid=ink_tptd_np   (693 words)

  
 FIRM Research - Bibliography
Palmer, James & Riley, Michael, The Films of Joseph Losey, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Parrish, James Robert, The Hollywood Celebrity Death Book, Pioneer Books, 1993.
Cameron-Wilson, James & Speed, F. Maurice, Film Review 1994, St. Martin's Press, 1993.
www.homevideo.net /FIRM/resbib.htm   (693 words)

  
 Holly Hunter
In 1993, Hunter returned to mainstream Hollywood with a supporting role in THE FIRM and delivered an internationally acclaimed lead performance in Jane Campion's New Zealand feature, THE PIANO, for which she won the best actress award at that year's Cannes Film Festival and later an Academy Award.
Fiery, diminutive character lead of film and TV noted for her eccentric roles and thick Southern accent.
Hunter established herself on stage before coming to national prominence in 1987 with lead roles in the Coen brothers' RAISING ARIZONA (in a part written for her) and James Brooks's BROADCAST NEWS (a role that earned her an Oscar nomination).
theoscarsite.com /whoswho7/hunter_h.htm   (693 words)

  
 Ballet.co Postings Page - "Ross Stretton is new RB Artistic Director"
Stretton is featured somewhat-prominently in the film as a firm but gentle administrator--the person responsible for auditioning & interviewing young dancers vying for positions in the company.
He was made Régisseur of the company in September 1991 and Assistant Director from 1993.
The film chronicled a year in the life of ABT during the post-Baryshnikov economic doldrums, with Jane Hermann at the helm.
www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/news/299.html   (3421 words)

  
 Lorimar Productions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1986, Lorimar merged with television syndication firm Telepictures, becoming Lorimar-Telepictures; later that year, they purchased the MGM lot from Ted Turner.
Additionally, Lorimar has owned key components of the film library of the defunct Allied Artists film studio (originally Monogram Pictures).
Lorimar continued as a production company until 1993, when it was also absorbed into Warners.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorimar_Television   (3421 words)

  
 Hays Site Background Information
In early 1995, the URA had plans to sell the site to By-Products Industries Inc. (BPI), a mineral processing firm with an office in Wilkinsburg and a plant in McKees Rocks, for industrial recycling.
(Sheehan, 1992) At this time, the URA's redevelopment efforts were focused on the film-making industry, but the URA considered pursuing light industrial development if these efforts proved to be impractical.
(Sheehan, 1992) In early 1992, the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority invited ten Pittsburgh architectural and engineering firms to submit proposals for converting the plant into a motion-picture soundstage.
www.ce.cmu.edu /~brownfields/nsf/sites/hays/INFO.HTM   (1686 words)

  
 The Rainmaker
Na The Firm (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Client (1994), The Chamber (1996) en A Time To Kill (1996) is The Rainmaker de zesde bewerkte 'legal-thriller' van schrijver John Grishams.
The Rainmaker kent heel wat meer psychologische ontwikkeling dan de doorsnee advocatenfilm.
Toch is in The Rainmaker de hand van de meester herkenbaar.
www.cinemaparadiso.nl /rainmaker.html   (184 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Sponsors > PlayStation (Sony)
In 1993 Morita suffered a brain haemorrhage and was forced to resign from the company the following year.
Under the new management the slowing down of sales led the company to expand its involvement in consumer electronics and in 1994 the firm launched its PlayStation games machine.
This included investment in the music, film and publishing business, notably the purchase of CBS Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures in 1989.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/spon-031.html   (184 words)

  
 Cinematographer Robert Mclachlan
Supporting his claim that sweeping grandeur isn't always necessary for recognition, McLachlan took home the 1993 CSC award in the feature film category for Impolite, a Canadian project whose indie-size budget (less than $1 million) seemed laughable compared to the higher-profile films against which it competed.
Though he is part of a profession that rewards uniqueness and celebrates individuality, McLachlan stays firm within his belief that the best cinematography is the most unobtrusive cinematography.
McLachlan also admits that upcoming changes in the series' structural technique will affect the show's much-heralded appearance.
millimeter.com /mag/video_cinematographer_robert_mclachlan   (695 words)

  
 WHAT'S NEW - January 2006
The latest foray into screenwriting for Ishiguro, who was born in Japan and grew up in Britain, is "The White Countess." The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by the late Ismail Merchant, the same team who brought Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day" to the screen in 1993.
A weeklong festival was be held in Hong Kong to celebrate the unveiling of a Bruce Lee statue on Hong Kong's Avenue of Stars on his 65th birthday.
He is a founding partner of Storm Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that specializes in seed- and early-stage funding with more than $500 million under management.
us_asians.tripod.com /new.html   (3284 words)

  
 Sloss Law Office L.L.P. : New York City Film Resource
Sloss Law Office L.L.P. is a full service entertainment law firm providing counsel in business transactions for the entertainment, sports and media industries.
John Sloss left his Partnership at Morrison & Foerster to found Sloss Law Office in March 1993.
Sloss Law Office represents clients in all aspects of motion picture and television financing, production and distribution, including actors, writers, directors and producers, as well as financiers and television networks.
www.nycresource.com /Detailed/202.html   (3284 words)

  
 Superconducting Magnetometer
The film from which the flux transformer was made was deposited at Conductus using a technique in which the substrate is rotated during the process.
The magnetometers were developed by a team led by Clarke that includes researchers at LBL, the University of California at Berkeley, and Conductus Inc., a private firm based in Sunnyvale, California.
In work reported in the October 18 and December 27, 1993 editions of Applied Physics Letters, the team describes a magnetometer with a single-layer flux transformer with the lowest magnetic field noise yet achieved by a high Tc instrument.
www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/magnetometers.html   (986 words)

  
 Early Computer Graphics in Film
The firm has also created television commercials and music videos using these techniques, and further popularized CGI effects for film in the Jurassic Park films (1993, 1997).
Instead of the film industry's traditional models and miniatures, computer graphics were used to create all the spaceships, planets, and high-tech hardware in the film.
Computer graphics has also given a behind-the-scenes assist to traditional animation in film, going back to Disney's The Black Hole (1979), in most Disney films since The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and in Kroyer Films' FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992).
www.beanblossom.in.us /larryy/cgi.html   (1387 words)

  
 Backbeat Books - Browse by Authors
John Stiernberg is founder and principal consultant with Stiernberg Consulting, a business development firm he established in 1993.
He co-wrote and produced the film Curves, Contours and Body Horns about the Stratocaster, which inspired this book.
John is a former editor of the London listings magazine Time Out, the author of Magazine Editing, a textbook for would-be magazine editors, and the author of two collected volumes of Frantic Semantics, his regular column on modern English in The Daily Telegraph.
www.backbeatbooks.com /?browse=authors   (1387 words)

  
 2.06: The Americanization of Sony
Morita recently suffered a stroke that, it appears, ended his working life, but the eager willingness he and Ibuka shared to move out into a world that the Japanese had traditionally avoided has become a part of the "story" that makes Sony atypical for a Japanese firm.
When Sony Electronic Publishing debuted its new CD-ROM game, Ground Zero Texas, it immediately got calls from the Sony studios, wanting to nail down the film rights.
While 1993 was a record year for the entertainment hardware business in the US, the Japanese and European economies have continued to wallow in recession.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.06/sony_pr.html   (4691 words)

  
 PBS: Think Tank: A Conversation with Sydney Pollack
Over the course of a career that spans more than three decades, Pollack has directed such memorable films as "The Way We Were" (1973), "Tootsie" (1982), and "The Firm" (1993).
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg visits the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, to sit down with Sydney Pollack, one of America's foremost film directors.
Pollack joins Think Tank to discuss his life, his work, and the business of making movies.
www.pbs.org /thinktank/show_896.html   (200 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Technology When hi-tech meets high fantasy
Running the huge technological resources behind the films was Weta Digital, a firm formed by Rings director Peter Jackson and others in 1993 to do the effects for the Heavenly Creatures movie.
Some of that data is a few years old because some sequences, such as the Balrog from the Mines of Moria, appeared in more than one film.
The ones that beat Weta are the Japanese Earth Simulator (5120 processors) and Los Alamos National Laboratory's supercomputer (8192 processors).
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3672887.stm   (863 words)

  
 alahist.html
The gunsmith firm of Eliphalet Remington and Sons produces typewriters in New York.
Meyers House built in Alameda for prominent architect Henry H. Meyers; bequeathed to the City of Alameda by the family in 1993.
American film director Edwin S. Porter completes the Great Train Robbery.
www.alamedamuseum.org /alahist.html   (863 words)

  
 CLL Articles - Does Film Publish Screenplay?
In 1993, Shoptalk brought an action in the Southern District seeking a declaration that the 1983 agreement was no longer valid, and requesting a return of all royalties, both as to the film and the screenplay, which Shoptalk had paid to Concorde after the lapse of the copyright in the film in 1988.
Under this agreement, Concorde was required to renew the copyright in the film before the expiration of the statutory renewal period in 1988.
Concorde failed to renew the copyright, and the film lapsed into the public domain at the end of 1988.
www.cll.com /articles/article.cfm?articleid=16   (863 words)

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