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In 1967, Peter Bart, then a young family man and rising reporter for the New York Times, decided to upend his life and enter the dizzying world of motion pictures. Infamous Players is the story of Bart's whirlwind journey at Paramount, his role in its triumphs and failures, and how a new kind of filmmaking emerged during that time.

When Bart was lured to Paramount by his friend and fellow newcomer, the legendary Robert Evans, the studio was languishing, its slate riddled with movies that were out of touch with the dynamic sixties. By the time Bart left Paramount, in...

Far more expansive than You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, The Kid Stays in the Picture by Hollywood giant and legendary "bad boy" Robert Evans is an intimate and fascinating account of his rise, fall, and rise again in show business that makes for a harrowing read. From his early days in radio to popularizing "women in pants" as part of Evan-Picone, to being "discovered" by Norma Shearer and Darryl Zanuck, to, bizarrely enough, becoming the first actor to ever run a motion picture studio, this is a page-turning autobiography more gripping than fiction at its best. Under Evans's...

"In Nederland worden jaarlijks miljoenen dieren door mensen gedood. Landbouwhuisdieren, zoals runderen, schapen, varkens en kippen worden geslacht voor vlees of 'geruimd' in het kader van de bestrijding van besmettelijke dierziekten. Vissen worden gedood voor de visconsumptie. Huisdieren zoals honden en katten worden om uiteenlopende redenen 'geëuthanaseerd'. Proefdieren worden opgeofferd ten behoeve van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. In het wild levende dieren worden bejaagd of gedood om redenen van natuurbeheer en ratten en muizen worden verdelgd omdat zij als 'ongedierte' worden beschouwd. ...

The ?rst International Symposium on the Applications of Constraint Databases (CDB2004) took place in Paris, France, on June 12-13, 2004, just before the ACM SIGMOD and PODS conferences. Since the publication of the paper "Constraint Query Languages" by Kan- lakis, Kuper and Revesz in 1990, the last decade has seen a growing interest in constraint database theory, query evaluation, and applications, re?ected in a variety of conferences, journals, and books. Constraint databases have proven to be extremely ?exible and adoptable in environments that relational database systems cannot serve well,...