And the 'grandest possible scale' is the only way to describe Gladiator, his new film which boasts a sweet $100 million budget.
He believes that the coming fights on spending and deficit reduction will fall squarely in his budget "sweet spot," in the words of a friend.
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles on a microscopic budget, "Sweet Sweetback" was perhaps more of an exercise in unbridled id than considered ideology, a sexually charged fantasy about a brothel entertainer (played by Mr. Van Peebles himself) who assaults a pair of racist cops and goes on the run.
Cut, cut, cut!" At a rundown teahouse rented out on a stiflingly hot afternoon last fall, Ms. Boroomand is shooting a scene for her latest film, "Sweet Jam," a low-budget comedy about jars of jam that won't open and the campaign of a young boy to seek justice from the factory that made them.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
The musical's success thus far has been both sweet (a relatively small $2.25 million budget and several awards) and sour (with one exception, the original cast has been let go and more experienced actors have been hired).
At the other end of the budget, the musical Sweet Charity, which played in Sydney's tiny 110-seat Hayes theatre, won three awards, beating Baz Luhrmann's high-profile but poorly reviewed Strictly Ballroom, whose award haul was limited to best female supporting actor in a musical for Heather Mitchell.
A budget Bold, a sweet all-purpose Storm 3, and then something in between, for wafflers.
In early August, for example, there will be workshop presentations of a big-budget commercial musical, "Sweet Smell of Success," with John Lithgow in the leading role of J. J. Hunsecker, a ruthless columnist.
"Companies should be willing to takes less of a sweet pot, because Bloomberg has a tremendous budget gap," he said.
