Rather, it stemmed from ructions at Fannie Mae, the custodian of more than $2 trillion-worth of their mortgages.On Monday September 27th, Fannie's board of directors bowed to pressure from its regulator, the pithily named Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), to raise by 30% the amount of capital that it holds against its debts.
Brian De Palma isn't talking, and neither is Paramount, but indications are that the outspoken director has bowed to pressure from the studio and the Motion Picture Assn. of America to make cuts in his new movie "Snake Eyes". De Palma blasted the MPAA last week and said he would not trim the film to get a PG-13 rating, maintaining the cuts would damage the movie.
The intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh, director of the National Security Directorate, bowed his head before Parliament and said there had been negligence by some in the presidential guard, his own intelligence service and possible complicity by some police officers, making it possible for the gunmen to fire from a hotel room, killing three people and wounding 11.
Trip Cullman directs the fourth work by the playwright, screenwriter and film director Paul Weitz to bow at Second Stage, with a cast that also includes Mark Blum and Lisa Emery.
The playwright, director and producer George C. Wolfe also bowed out, because he was too busy.
Mr. Kikukawa was replaced by Shuichi Takayama, a managing director of the company, who bowed deeply in front of flashing cameras and promised to "spearhead efforts to restore confidence" in Olympus.
His "Heist" director and friend Brett Ratner rightfully bowed out of producing the telecast after letting his mouth wander way too much.
While next summer's sequel will hit big screens four years after "The Dark Knight" bowed in 2008, director Christopher Nolan revealed the film will double that in time passed between movies, and will provide a definite finale to the storyline he began with, fittingly, "Batman Begins".
In a clever formal touch, director Ken Loach bows to the teacher's delusions of grandeur by imposing score captions on the screen.
The director's last feature, "Moonrise Kingdom," bowed in 2012 with a per-screen take of $131,000 on its opening weekend.
