The class-action lawsuit sought to block the May 29 shareholder vote in connection with the sale, alleging that Bear Stearns's board of directors dropped the ball and sold the investment bank too cheaply.
Ms. Farmiga came to direct "Higher Ground," which has moments of hilarity, despite its serious subject matter, only after other directors dropped out or wanted to take the tone in a direction that Ms. Farmiga, who helped develop the script, did not envision.
The producers can console themselves that if one director drops out, there is bound to be another who can step into the breach.
THERE is something a little incongruous about hearing Oliver Stone, the left-leaning, blunt-talking film director, dropping arcane Wall Street terms like "credit default swaps" and "collateralized debt obligations".
Only thirty-one now, he was twenty-seven when Key and Peele managed to persuade Comedy Central to accept him after the studio's first choice for director dropped out.
About once a week through the summer, it turns out, a band director drops by, usually unannounced, just to poke his or her head in the door to say hello and breathe in the Dinkles factory air for a bit.
The director drops viewers right into the action in a gripping opening sequence that cuts between the kidnapping of a middle-aged American on the streets of Lahore at the end of an evening out and a sophisticated party of music elsewhere in the city, at which virtuoso performers delight an audience with ecstatic renderings of poetry in Urdu.
The board of La Scala opera house in Milan appointed Stephane Lissner (below) yesterday as the theater's new general manager and artistic director, dropping the curtain on a bitter backstage drama that has pitted disgruntled workers against an increasingly besieged management.
"That was an accident, because the director dropped out," said Butler.
Unfortunately for Aronofsky and his fans, the director dropped out of the film over a year later.
