Sundance first hit its stride in the 1980s partly because independent-film executives, split between New York and Los Angeles, came together in the middle to wheel and deal.
After that, the executives split into two camps, one advocating Thompson New York, the other D.M.B.& B. Though the familiar "Bullish on America" theme was created by a previous agency, Ogilvy & Mather, Bozell also used bulls.
The feature argues that some of Fairfax's wounds are self-inflicted – for example, when executives split the newsroom between the tabloid website and the highbrow newspaper back in the 1990s.
"Critics and News Executives Split Over Sexism in Clinton Coverage" (front page, June 13) is a start at turning our nation's attention to the damaging effects of this subtle and blatant prejudice.
She said Ding's company had become a major source of tension within her trade group, with executives split over whether they should try to battle him and risk losing access to fireworks or leave him alone and tolerate the status quo.
In general, record executives split into two types: the cost-cutters, book-balancers and bottom-line people, who run record companies as they would other major international businesses, and the music people, an increasingly rare breed that spends more time working hands-on with pop stars, trying to team them up with the right songwriters, producers and collaborators.
Abid Gilani was a 55-year-old Wells Fargo executive who split his time between Washington DC and New York.
Stephen Hester, the chief executive, has split his predecessor's office in two and occupies only half of it.
And once it was a top industry executive who split the money among three clerks who had entered losing sheets.
