"He was a director and used to play polo with Will Rogers.
Instead, he borrowed $500,000 from United Bank of Midland, a Texas bank of which he had previously been a director, and used it to buy a stake in the team.
One of the men told Deveney that "the cardinal was his spiritual director and used bedtime prayers as an opportunity to make advances to his young student".
When you're a powerful Hollywood director and use your influence to get a 13-year-old girl alone with you, then ply her with drugs and forcibly sodomize her, you might think a description like, off the top of my head, "scumbag rapist" would be appropriate.
Now, the story appears for the first time in this stage adaptation by playwright Ron Hutchinson, working from versions of Miller's script and notes collated by director James Dacre, and "using only Arthur Miller's language and narrative structure".
In his letter, Mr. Gold chastised the board for not treating all directors fairly and using corporate governance as a shield to protect Mr. Eisner.
French director Michel Hazanavicius defended his film as an unapologetic "love letter to cinema", free to quote from Hitchcock and other directors and use whatever music he pleased.
The Hollywood Reporter weighed in with, "one would hope that he might work with a co-screenwriter next time, forget about his favourite other directors and use a style that organically suits the subject".
Among the suggestions were writing new agreements that would reduce the obligations for future payments, and using directors' and officers' insurance to control legal outlays.
The artist, art director and filmmaker uses her alter ego, Joyce, to create intriguing, unsettling scenes of suburban frustration, female isolation and the hopeless fight against time, often surrounded by food, masks, and saturated soft furnishings.
