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Profiles: Exec director admits running co. tougher than expected -- Telefilm Canada executive director Wayne Clarkson is the first to admit that things haven't always gone smoothly in his two years in the top job at the Canuck funding agency. "The decisions made out of this institution don't make everyone happy all the time," Clarkson tells Variety.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Robert Falls -- It might seem counter-intuitive, but director Robert Falls believes that to best serve the Goodman Theater, the venerable Chicago institution of which he is artistic director, sometimes he needs to get away.
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Profiles: Hyphenate's test comes when 'Awakening' premieres Dec. 10 -- You can't throw a BlackBerry in New York without hitting three actors who want to direct, but thesps who dream of producing are a scarcer breed. Even among that group, Tom Hulce may be unique. The projects he chooses and the manner in which he develops them reveal an unusually hands-on approach to a job that often centers on fund-raising and numbers crunching.
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Profiles: On two continents, tastemaker fuels public's passion -- "American Idol" may have made Simon Cowell a household name, but -- with apologies to Michael Jackson -- the 47-year-old Brit, who's had a hand in nearly 100 top-30 hits and is Variety's U.K. Personality of the Year, has spent the last 15 years establishing himself as the King of Pop.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Peter Einstein -- How do you convince someone to buy something they think they can get for free? That was the challenge facing Peter Einstein, prexy and CEO of satcaster paybox Showtime Arabia, the joint venture between Viacom and Kuwaiti investment company Kipco, which is now 10 years old.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Doug Herzog -- Let's get it out of the way -- Dave Chappelle is history. The comic flamed out last year, leaving Comedy Central holding the bag on its marquee show. Next month, the cabler will fondly bid him adieu by airing the remnants of the unfinished third season.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Josef Rusnak -- Reality and illusion, truth and deception, fear and terrorism -- they are topics that are indelibly linked for Josef Rusnak. The German director is in Sofia, Bulgaria, filming the Wesley Snipes thriller "Shooter," about a former CIA agent assigned to take out an international terrorist but who ultimately becomes the hunted as the agency turns on him.
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Profiles: Featured Player -- When Rufus Wainwright re-creates Judy Garland's 1961 concert at Carnegie Hall June 14 and 15, he'll have some gigantic ruby slippers to fill. It's not just that Garland is considered one of the greatest entertainers in history. Her Carnegie Hall appearance on April 23, 1961, marked the pinnacle of her live performance career -- and is usually referred to as "the greatest night in show business history." But no pressure.
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Profiles: Featured Player -- There are worse friends to have in television than Regis Philbin. The ubiquitous host was one of several TV personalities, including some latenight stalwarts, who made personal pitches for Jill Leiderman, who in April succeeded Duncan Gray as executive producer of "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
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Profiles: Featured Player: Martin McDonagh -- "I've never written anything trying to be violent," confesses Martin McDonagh. "They just come out that way." The playwright says he is unable to explain why his plays, always set in humdrum locales, include astonishing paroxysms of physical or psychological rage.
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Profiles: Featured player: Francis Veber -- Some French filmmakers dream of making movies in Hollywood. Francis Veber is content simply to live there.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Duncan Sheik -- When playwright Steven Sater first asked Duncan Sheik to pen music for the theater, Sheik demurred. He said, "Steven, that's not really in my skill set."
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Profiles: 'Bridge' opens on Broadway Jan. 26 -- After 30 years working in legit, Tony Taccone, director of Sarah Jones' one-woman show "Bridge & Tunnel," which opens on Broadway Jan. 26, is finding life is still full of surprises.
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Profiles: 'Hedda' hits a high note -- Scribe Jeff Whitty's comedy "The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler" has gone still further since May's staged reading in the Pacific Playwrights Festival.
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Profiles: Featured Player -- Eric Schaeffer, a.d. of Signature Theater and outrageously busy freelancer, is clearly in his element right now. Perhaps his next show should be titled "See Eric Run."
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Profiles: C4 topper Lygo gives U.S. content its due -- Call it British snobbery, but there is a tendency for some webheads here to play down the importance of U.S. skeins in their schedules.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Chihiro Kameyama -- He's in Los Angeles for the AFI Fest with a hit film and he's looking for a Stateside business partner. But he can afford to be picky.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Fyodor Bondarchuk -- What's in a name? When it's Russia, and the name is Bondarchuk, a great deal. Though several notable family film dynasties in the territory, there are few harder acts to follow than classic Soviet helmer Sergei Bondarchuk, whose resume includes titles like "War and Peace."
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Profiles: Featured Player: Judy Nir Moses Shalom -- Judy Nir Moses Shalom is one of Israel's most recognizable TV and radio personalities, the outspoken host of weekly magazine TV show "Judy" and, premiering this November, a new TV yakker airing on Fridays on Channel 2.
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Profiles: Featured Player: Claude Chabrol -- On the set of his latest film, a tiny apartment in a Paris suburb, Claude Chabrol is every inch French cinema's elder statesman as he puffs on a fat cigar and gives Isabelle Huppert her marching orders.