"One of our executives, Mark Sourian, called me around 2 one afternoon and said there was this extraordinary film he had just seen and the rights were being shopped," Mr. Parkes recalled.
With the story leading bulletins early the next morning Gordon called me around 6.30 am, fuming.
"The president called me around noon today to begin the consultation process on a new Supreme Court nominee," Mr. Specter said in a statement.
An excerpt from Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood by Dori Katz INTRODUCTION I knew it was my mother when the telephone rang that morning, not only because she always called me around that time on Sundays, but also because I thought the ring sounded angry and reproachful.
"He was hanging with his cousins and he called me around 2 p.m. that day," Barnes said.
Vincent calls me around noon. "I stayed out very late last night at a wine tasting," he says.
A writer friend of mine called me around the time I was rearranging my home and painting it a new color.
"A friend called me around 3 30 yesterday to ask if I was OK, as a building next to mine had just exploded -- I was at the dentist's office in the chair," Saxon, 35, told The Huffington Post.
That night Sara called me at around 11 PM.
"Elvis used to call me up around 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. and say, 'Hey, Billy, let's go for a ride,' " Strange recalled in 2002, when "A Little Less Conversation," a song that he and Mac Davis had written for Presley 33 years earlier, suddenly was a hit again thanks to an electronic dance remix by Amsterdam DJ Junkie XL. "I lost a dear friend when Elvis died.
