Sunday September
30
FORCED
SUBTLETY: As America struggles to avoid persecution of its
Arab citizens in the wake of the September 11 disaster, a film
festival in Boston is seeming awfully timely. The "Festival
of Films From Iran" provides a unique look at the film industry
in a nation where heavy censorship and strict moral guidelines
are the rule. Boston Globe 09/30/01
ALL
ABOUT THE PRODUCT TIE-INS: Two blockbuster movies are about
to come out - installing the Lord of the Rings and Harry
Potter franchises on the big screen. But aside from questions
about whether or not the movies will be any good, are the merchandising
issues. There are billions (yes that's with a 'b') at stake. The
Telegraph (UK) 09/29/01
Friday September
28
HELPING
OR EXPLOITING? "Do movies distort our views of past events?
Or do they do a service by arousing our curiosity to find out
what really happened? At the moment, it's hard to imagine Hollywood
making a movie based on the events of Sept. 11. But the industry
track record shows it is merely a matter of time." The
Christian Science Monitor 09/28/01
Thursday September
27
EMMY
AWARDS TO BE LOW-KEY: The TV awards show, postponed from September
16 to October 7, will be a dress-down affair. No glamorous outfits,
no red carpet. And because of the changed schedule, the new complications
of cross-country travel, and doubts about the appropriateness
of awards at this time, several nominees and winners may not be
there either. New York Post 09/27/01
FILMING
RESUMES IN MANHATTAN: For the first time since September 11,
New York City is issuing permits for filming in Manhattan; filming
in the outer boroughs began last week. Several commercials and
at least five feature films are lined up, along with the 13 TV
series which film there regularly. New York Post 09/27/01
THE
REALITY OF ENTERTAINMENT: It used to be that the media had
to apologize for faking reality. Now it's the other way around.
BBC is trying to deny that it's setting up "a new department
dedicated to factual entertainment programmes." BBC
09/25/01
Wednesday September
26
WHAT
MOVIES DO: Do violent movies reflect society or influence
it? A long-pondered question. "Apart from their profitability
for producers, simplified treatments of disturbing topics give
audiences a feeling of togetherness in a world that's sometimes
too scattered and confusing for comfort. This can have a calming
effect, but it can also promote negative attitudes of prejudice
and xenophobia." Christian Science
Monitor 09/26/01
Tuesday September
25
MEANING
ON THE SCREEN: Director Wim Wenders on reality and fiction
on the screen: "Of course cinema and reality are two different
things. But the insight that what we saw was real does not change
the phenomenology of the situation: We sit in front of the television
and watch. To begin with, they are both just images. And for many
people, the real dimensions became clear only after several days.
At the beginning, the division between fiction and reality was
extremely blurred." Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung 09/24/01
SCREEN
TEST: "Using test audiences to see how a film plays during
editing has long been standard practice in Hollywood. Traditionally,
Australian film-makers have filled screenings with collaborators,
advisers and trusted friends without formally measuring their
response. This is partly a reflection of the industry's defiant
independence from Hollywood commerciality; partly scepticism about
using market research to improve films; and partly a reflection
of limited budgets for test screenings and correcting problems.
But faced with the ever-tougher challenge of competing in cinemas,
test screenings are becoming more frequent." Sydney
Morning Herald 09/25/01
CHANGING
HOLLYWOOD: "Everywhere you look in Hollywood since that
tragic day, the entertainment landscape has been transformed,
as if ripped asunder by a massive earthquake. People have come
to work feeling like jittery sleepwalkers, especially after the
studios received FBI warnings late last week that they could be
possible targets for terrorism. Nearly every studio has been postponing
films, giving them face lifts or tossing scripts out the window."
Los Angeles Times 09/25/01
Sunday September
23
INDEPENDENT
FAILURE: Independent film producer Shooting Gallery was hailed
as one of the most innovative, successful indie producers. Founded
with $7,000 in 1991, Shooting Gallery epitomized the ethos of
guerrilla filmmaking, in which hustle and chutzpah-and artistic
freedom-made up for lack of financial resources." But with
a string of successes and awards, how did the company lose $70
million and go bankrupt? Los Angeles
Times 09/23/01
Friday September
21
STAR
CLUSTER: Tonight's two-hour A-list celebrity telethon to benefit
the rebuilding and victims in New York is involving cooperation
in the entertainment industry on an unprecedented scale. Dozens
of stars are involved and "more than 31 cable channels, including
FX, TNT, Discovery and BET, will air the program." Organizers
hope to raise $30 million. Los Angeles
Times 09/21/01
- FROM
A SECRET LOCATION: "We're not even disclosing where
the show is going to be done. There will be no audience, no
commercials, and no press. ... It's a very special thing, dedicated
for a very special reason, and not to be commercialized." San
Francisco Chronicle 09/21/01
NOT
WILD ABOUT HARRY: Christian fundamentalist attacks on Harry
Potter increase. "Primarily, there's the suggestion that
Rowling is promoting occultism, witchcraft, mysticism, and 'magick,'
or sorcery, in her books. The Potter books, 'placed in a culture
that glorifies, promotes, and markets witchcraft to teens, especially
teen girls' - Buffy, check your pager - 'can translate into involvement
with the occult.' Boston Globe 09/20/01
DISASTER
RELIEF: It's amazing how many movies feature the World Trade
Center, how many songs have references that now seem inappropriate.
"The news profoundly affected our movies and TV, just as
in small, weird ways, TV and movies influenced the coverage of
the events themselves." The Guardian
(UK) 09/21/01
WHEN
REALITY INTRUDES ON LAFF TRACKS: How will characters in tv
sitcoms deal with the World Trade Center tragedy? "One option
is to continue with a simulation of a New York City that no longer
exists. The other is to move into some television version of the
new New York City. Last week's tragedy seems too big, too powerful,
too overwhelming for anyone – even TV characters – to escape."
Dallas Morning News 09/20/01
REALITY
INTRUDES: "Now, as life begins to return to something
approaching normal, Hollywood has a dilemma: Does it return to
its traditional offerings of blood-and-guts movies while the country
is still hurting? And another question: Will TV shows featuring
terrorists and bomb threats still play? Complicating all this
is the fact that business plain stinks for just about everyone
in media these days." Businessweek 09/21/01
COMING OF AGE: One
Hollywood producer suggests "This could be a coming of age
for our nation. It depends on which way we go. I'd like to see
us start looking at the process of recovery, and if entertainment
has any job, it's to put this suffering in a kind of context and
prepare people for what's next." Christian
Science Monitor 09/21/01
HARD TARGET:
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation notified the major film
studios in Los Angeles yesterday that one of them could be the
target of a terrorist bombing if the United States attacked Afghan
targets." The New York Times 09/21/01
THE
GREAT PREDICTER? "Nostradamus" was the top search
word on the internet in the past week "Net surfers scoured
the Web for information on the 16th-century soothsayer after a
widely circulated e-mail hoax suggested he had predicted the tragedy.
Top-ranked Nostradamus and other terms related to the terrorist
attacks have been the most requested search items on the Web indexes
Google, Lycos and Yahoo! over the past eight days." National
Post (Daily News) 09/21/01
Thursday September
20
NEW HEAD
OF BBC, WITH STRINGS ATTACHED: "Gavyn Davies, the former
Labour donor who was yesterday appointed BBC chairman, vehemently
denied he was a 'Labour crony' and urged ministers to appoint
a Tory deputy to preserve the corporation's impartiality. Resigning
his Labour party membership, he said the traditional 'mix' at
the top of the BBC should be maintained. But the Tories were furious,
declaring the process an 'insult to people's intelligence'."
The Guardian (UK) 09/20/01
NO
TIME FOR FUN RIGHT NOW: The host of a Canadian TV show which
pokes fun at the differences between Canada and the United States
has withdrawn his nomination for a Gemini award, saying "this
is a time to offer unconditional support to Americans."
CBC 09/20/01
THE
MEANING OF LIFE: A new seven-part series Evolution is
hyped as " the most comprehensive and far-reaching examination
of evolution to date." It's also a milestone for public television.
"Evolution is a dizzying tour that takes us all over
the world and packs its engaging episodes with food for thought.
It’s an Achievement. But even eight hours can’t do more than scratch
the surface when it comes to explaining the change over time of
all living things." Boston Phoenix
09/19/01
THE
SOPRANOS WILL KEEP ON SINGING: A US judge in Chicago has dismissed
a lawsuit which claimed that the TV show The Sopranos was
defamatory to Italian-Americans. He said the group which brought
the suit had no basis for suing, because it had suffered no injury.
"He also ruled that the HBO-made show had a constitutional
right to air its depiction of a fictional New Jersey family of
Mafia members." BBC 09/20/01
Wednesday September
19
VIOLENCE
SELLS: Are American movie-makers too good at producing violence
on the screen? "We have to face the question of violence
as our country's cultural touchstone. If it's not our native tongue
heard in the movies that we send around the globe, then it's the
language we speak most ardently. The graphic image of the White
House exploding in Independence Day has a frightening quality,
and in hindsight, since the Bush administration has said the White
House was a target of the terrorists, perhaps suggested the way
to unlock the door to our national nightmares — a horror-movie
symbolism that shows the power of a grand gesture." The
New York Times 09/18/01 (one-time
registration required for access)
Tuesday September
18
NY
W/O TV: The World Trade Center disaster knocked 10 New York
TV stations off over-the-air broadcast, because the stations'
transmitters were located on the towers. "At least four will
resume transmissions from the relatively remote - and shorter
- Armstrong radio tower on the Palisades at Alpine, N.J. Two other
stations are installing transmitters and antennas atop the already-crowded
Empire State Building - the original home of New York's TV stations
until the taller World Trade Center was completed in the early
'70s." New York Post 09/17/01
SANITIZING
THE CRISIS: Clear Channel Communications, one of the world's
largest media companies, has circulated a memo to its radio stations
across the U.S. "suggesting" the removal of some 150
songs from station playlists in the wake of last week's attack.
Program directors have been left to wonder what could possibly
be objectionable about the Beatles' "Obla-Di Obla-Da"
or Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World." St.
Paul Pioneer Press 09/18/01
NOT
SO PERFECT AFTER ALL: Satellite radio has been touted as the
medium's savior: convenient, marketable, and oh, that clear, digital
sound! But, as it turns out, the signal has trouble reaching rural
areas. And big cities. The FCC is trying to help. Nando
Times (AP) 09/17/01
Monday September
17
TORONTO
FILM FESTIVAL PRIZE: The film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie
Poulain, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins top prize at
the Toronto Film Festival. "The final press conference -
usually a sit-down brunch with much applause and laughter - was
a conventional press conference, attended mostly by Canadians
and a few stranded travellers, and felt less like a celebration
than a funeral reception." The
Globe & Mail (Canada) 09/17/01
- TORONTO
TROUBLE: Last week's terrorism deflated the Toronto Film
Festival. With transportation down, "the result was massive
trouble for the festival's guest office and for major hotels.
Some festival guests couldn't get to Toronto; certain films
had to be cancelled because prints did not arrive; and many
festival guests who were already here found themselves unable
to leave town." Toronto Star
09/17/01
AUDIENCES
RETURN TO MOVIES: "Cinemas were relatively empty on Friday
as many Americans watched events on television news, but on Saturday
cinema audiences returned." BBC
09/17/01
THE
POWER OF IMAGES: "As several columnists have noted, these
attacks stem in part from a disgust with the modern world, with
the huge and potentially crippling cultural impact our music,
our mores and, inevitably, our movies are having on the traditional
ways of life these people are committed to preserve at all costs.
They see our films as infecting their world, changing their children's
attitudes, in ways they find abhorrent. Given all that, what can
be said for film in these terrible days?" Los
Angeles Times 09/17/01
Sunday September
16
BBC
COMMITS TO ARTS: The BBC replies to charges that creating
an arts channel dumbs down the broadcaster's commitment to arts
programming. "BBC1 is going through a transition - for the
better. It is now, and will remain, the showcase channel for the
best programmes on the BBC, including arts. This is not lip-service,
it's a serious commitment." The
Observer (UK) 09/16/01
REEL
DECISION: The Toronto Film Festival weighs whether to finish
up the festival or cancel. "Movies reflect the world around
them, and so do film festivals - even when that world is plunged
for a time into chaos and the dark. Was it right to continue an
event that celebrates art and entertainment, in the midst of real-life
madness and death?" Chicago Tribune
09/15/01
WHEN
TORONTO IS THE BRONX: Hollywood is drawn to filming projects
in Canada by the cheap Canadian dollar (and government tax incentives).
But rarely do the scripts call for Canadian locations, so Vancouver
masquerades as San Francisco, Toronto as the Bronx, and... Saturday
Night (Canada) 09/15/01
Friday September
14
BBC'S
NEW CULTURE CHANNEL: The BBC is granted three new channels,
including "BBC4, a new channel devoted to culture, the arts
and ideas, and two new children’s channels." The government's
culture minister says that BBC4 is "a distinctive, well defined
service intended to create a forum for debate." The
Times (UK) 09/14/01
- Previously: ATTACKING
BBC ON ARTS: Has the BBC abdicated its responsibility for
arts programming? One critic thinks so: "Proms attendances are
going up and just try to get into the Tate Modern on a Saturday
afternoon - but that is not reflected on BBC One." BBC
09/12/01
THE
UNCERTAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ART AND LIFE: For the past three
days, the script for reality came out of a Hollywood cataclysm
movie. But, "The world is a more complex place, more like
a John le Carre novel with shifting truths than a Hollywood movie
of good guys and bad guys." And the
people who anticipated reality with special effects are finding
that their make-believe world too is changed forever. Boston
Globe & BBC 09/13/01
LET
THE BAD TIMES ROLL: The terrorist attacks have provoked some
changes and delays in plans for violent movies and TV shows. But
how long will that last? "Few producers, actors, or outside
observers expect Hollywood to holler 'Cut!' In fact, some believe
cinematic treatments of violent episodes such as terrorist attacks
may actually increase." It needn't be that way, of course;
it's possible
to hope for "something that travels thoughtfully beyond
the panoramic rubble, and obvious individual and collective pain,
to greater universal truths that define us as a society."
Boston Globe & Los Angeles Times
09/14/01
Thursday September
13
NETWORK
DELAYS SEASON: NBC TV delays next week's scheduled debut of
its fall TV season. Inside.com 09/12/01
- TERRORISM
SUDDENLY ISN'T SO ENTERTAINING: Hollywood wonders about
postponing release of action movies and TV shows that feature
terrorist stories. "Sony Pictures removed a trailer from
theaters and the Internet for the adventure Spider-Man
because of a scene in which a helicopter carrying fleeing robbers
gets trapped in a giant spider web strung between the two towers
of the World Trade Center." Nando
Times (AP) 09/12/01
ATTACKING
BBC ON ARTS: Has the BBC abdicated its responsibility for
arts programming? One critic thinks so: "Proms attendances are
going up and just try to get into the Tate Modern on a Saturday
afternoon - but that is not reflected on BBC One." BBC
09/12/01
- Previously: THE
ARTS GHETTO: The BBC declares that niche broadcasting is
the road to the future. So arts programming - better, more arts
programming - ought to get its own digital channel. Critics
are skeptical: "Whether we watch highbrow programmes in
droves or not, we prefer them to be available to all, not hived
off to the other side of the digital divide and held up to ransom."
The Telegraph (UK) 09/08/01
HOW TO USE THE
BUZZ GENERATOR: A research firm claims that properly deployed
Internet marketing could increase box-office receipts by $15 million
per film, and could as much as double book sales. "Marketeers
understand that the internet and word of mouth can help generate
buzz, but they don't know how to foster it to extend awareness
of a product beyond its initial release." screendaily 09/12/01
THE
NEW BIG THING IN COLLECTIBLES: All right, it's not really
big. It's not really art, either. It's a Hollywood Oscar - a very
hot item on the auction circuit. "An Oscar won by movie composer
George Stoll has been bought at auction by Hollywood actor Kevin
Spacey for $156,875 (£106,972) - seven times more than expected."
It's also seven
times more than was paid for the composer's German viola.
BBC & Nando Times 09/13/01
Wednesday September
12
POINTS
OF REFERENCE HARD TO COME BY AFTER ATTACK: Over and over on
Tuesday, reporters and witnesses were forced to describe the chaos
in New York following a horrific terrorist attack as being "like
something out of a movie." CNN interviewed author Tom Clancy,
and more than one witness cited the 1998 movie The Siege
to describe what they were seeing. "The power of pop culture
never seemed so real – or so terrifying." Dallas
Morning News 09/12/01
SQUARING
A TERRIFYING REALITY WITH THE TV NATION: "And what will
TV and the movies do now with their storytelling? To take the
most trivial example -- and yet so much of creative life will
seem trivial for a long time to come -- how will the producers
of Sex and the City or Law & Order create a fictive
New York that in any way corresponds to the world that has just
been overturned?" The Globe &
Mail (Toronto) 09/12/01
Tuesday September
11
WATCHING
ONLINE: Downloadable movies are about to be practical. "A
new format, DivX, makes it possible to compress any film down
to about 600MB - small enough to fit on an ordinary data CD but
still high enough quality for comfortable viewing. For people
with broadband connections, watching films online is within reach."
Will movie companies be any smarter about digital downloads than
music producers were? The Telegraph
(UK) 09/11/01
RADIONEXT:
"Satellite radio is to start broadcasting in the U.S. on
Wednesday, backed by major car manufacturers. It promises 100
channels of digital radio ranging from modern jazz to comedy to
24-hour news for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99."
BBC 09/11/01
THE
OTHER ACTORS' STRIKE: So the dreaded Hollywood actors' strike
planned for earlier this summer was averted, and everything was
fine in the world of performer/producer relations, right? Wrong.
"The final countdown to a possible strike by UK actors over
pay and conditions is to get under way on Tuesday... [and] threatens
to bring the UK film industry to a standstill." BBC
09/10/01
THAT'S
PRONOUNCED "O-LEE": "A big-budget movie about
the life of Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer Ole Bull
is to be released in 2005 to celebrate Norway’s 100 years of independence.
. . Bull was Norway’s first international star, a Paganini-type
womaniser who prompted hysteria with his playing all over Europe
and the US." Gramophone 09/11/01
Monday September
10
VENICE
WINNER: The grand prize at this year's Venice Film Festival
has been won by an Indian film, Monsoon Wedding. "The
film, directed by Mira Nair, is a comedy about an extended family
reuniting from around the globe for an arranged marriage in India's
capital, Delhi." BBC 09/10/01
Sunday September
9
THE
ARTS GHETTO: The BBC declares that niche broadcasting is the
road to the future. So arts programming - better, more arts programming
- ought to get its own digital channel. Critics are skeptical:
"Whether we watch highbrow programmes in droves or not, we
prefer them to be available to all, not hived off to the other
side of the digital divide and held up to ransom." The
Telegraph (UK) 09/08/01
TAKING
THE RISK OUT OF INDIE: Independent film used to be the domain
of risky fare that wasn't commercially hit-worthy. But now "the
indie domain now takes in everything from edgy, offbeat fare to
genre flicks (sci-fi, horror and thrillers) to star vehicles that
could just as easily be released by major studios—and often is
by their 'art-house' distribution arms." Is there still room
in Indie for risky work? Los Angeles
Times 09/09/01
ROGER
DOES TORONTO: The Toronto Film Festival is one of the world's
busiest. Roger Ebert tries to sort it out: "The opening three
days are so insanely front-loaded that critics go nuts trying
to map out their schedules; they stand in the lobby of the Varsity,
crossing screenings off their lists." National
Post (Canada) 09/08/01
Friday September
7
DIGITAL RADIO
IN THE UK - NO SALE: Technically and artistically, digital
radio is a terrific idea. Economically, not so. The former director
of radio at the BBC explains that "listeners really believe
that radio is free. The average UK household owns five radio sets,
scattered around the house or in the car. We might just conceivably
be persuaded to pay a slight premium to replace one of them —
but all five? No thanks." The
Times (UK) 09/07/01
SO
GOOD SHE'S BAD? Pauline Kael was a great film critic. But
was she so good she was bad for film? "The long-term result
of such an influential critic ignoring so much worthwhile foreign
work is that just about every other mainstream critic has followed
suit. This has dampened the desire of filmgoers to see foreign
movies (since they rarely hear about them), with the upshot that
distributors - who pay more attention to critics than you might
think - are much warier of picking them up than they were in the
1970s." The Guardian (UK) 09/07/01
ANOTHER LAYER IN
THE "WHAT IS ART" CONTROVERSY: Within the world
of art, there's a debate about just where to put electronic arts.
And within the world of electronic arts, there's a debate about
whether or not games should be included. Either way, some of the
games are winning prizes as art. Wired 09/07/01
MOVIE STUDIOS INVADED
BY HUMAN BEINGS: After a summer of films starring monsters,
cartoons, and bombs (literal and figurative), we may be coming
into an autumn filled with movies starring real people. Many of
whom can act. Christian Science
Monitor 09/07/01
BEATING HOLLYWOOD
AT ITS OWN GAME: "You want to know the Christians' biggest
mistake? Not recognizing the neutrality of media. You don't like
the movies they're showing downtown? Then make some of your own."
And not just tiny-budget sermonettes. We're talking epic thrillers,
with 8-figure budgets and big-name performers. The splashiest
and so-far most successful of them are based on the apocalyptic
Book of Revelation. The
New Yorker 09/10/01
COURT
UPHOLDS EBAY ON COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: A federal judge has
ruled that the Internet auction company eBay "was not liable
for copyright infringement because bootleg copies of a Charles
Manson documentary were sold using the site. The judge said it
was the first case to test whether a Web site has a 'safe harbor'
if people use the site to sell items that infringe on copyrights."
Nando Times 09/06/01
Thursday September
6
OLD
HABITS DIE HARD: From Birth of a Nation through Gone
With the Wind, Hollywood was accused of fostering racial stereotypes.
But hasn't the big West Coast Fantasy Factory learned its lesson?
Not really. Minorities are still underrepresented in the movies,
and "the lack of minority images in the movies is even more
destructive than the stereotypes. When minorities do appear, critics
say, they tend to be in the background, or cast as expendable
sidekicks to white male star." NPR
09/06/01
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS,
TELL A STORY: There's good news and bad news about the increased
capability and lowered costs of special effects in the movies.
The good news is, small companies can now compete with the big
ones. The bad news is, companies big and small are subordinating
story to technical wizardry. "I think it's very important
to have a message. Storytelling is not just 'this happened and
this happened and this happened'." Wired
09/05/01
FASTER
THAN A SPEEDING CENSOR, MORE POWERFUL THAN A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE:
To the list of those unseen factors which influence television
programming, you now can add the insurance underwriter. Many of
the "reality" shows put participants at risk - less
than it seems, but risk nonetheless. And "one thing that
is certain is the approval of insurance companies can be crucial
to the decision behind whether or not to include a certain stunt
in a show." ABC 09/05/01
Tuesday September
4
AUSSIE
FILM BREAKS: The Australian government is promising $90 million
in aid plus tax credits for investors of movies shot Down Under.
"The announcement is intended to reassure the local industry,
still reeling from last month's Tax Office ruling that outlawed
tax-minimising investments in the hit films Moulin Rouge
and The Matrix, among others." The
Age (Melbourne) 09/04/01
MAD
AS HELL AND CONTINUING TO TAKE IT: Has the entertainment industry
become so dedicated to appealing to the lowest common denominator
that it is dragging the nation's critics down into lowbrow hell?
"I find myself constantly reading favorable reviews of lousy
films. . . written by estimable critics who have been around a
long time and who, 10 or 15 years ago, wouldn't have had any patience
with any of these movies. But like everyone else, critics have
been conditioned to give in and go along -- or be branded a 'drag'
and left behind." Sacramento
Bee 09/04/01
Monday September
3
THE
MEANING OF (ELECTRONIC) ART: The Ars Electronica Festival
is a "mecca for Internet artists, computer-music composers
and others working in the digital realm." The Festival awards
a prize for best electronic art. But what exactly qualifies as
digital art? Software code? Music? Videos? It's a question even
the artists are confused about. The
New York Times 09/03/01 (one-time
registration required for access)
Sunday September
2
TV,
TV, AND MORE TV: This week Canada gets 47 new cable TV specialty
channels. But the available audience is small, the cost is high,
and many wonder how much consumers will be willing to spend on
niche offerings. "The CRTC may have approved 283 digital
licences, but no one knows exactly if or when they will make it
to air." The Globe & Mail
(Canada) 09/01/01
ART
OF PUBLICITY: Some of the most powerful people in the film
business are publicists - they manage stars and the press, trying
to make the numbers (a polite way to say 'money') work out. And
they'll go to any lengths... The Globe
& Mail (Canada) 09/01/01
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