Rick Schwartz

Rick Schwartz is an American film and television producer and financier based in New York, whose credits include The Departed,Black Swan,Gangs of New York, Machete,The Others, and Lip Sync Battle.

He has contributed articles to The Huffington Post, Times of London, ESPN's Grantland, and The Daily Beast.

Career

Schwartz began his film career at Miramax under Harvey and Bob Weinstein, working there for seven years and eventually serving as the company's senior vice president of production. At Miramax, Schwartz oversaw the development and production of projects including Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, and The Departed, and Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others.

In 2008, Schwartz founded Overnight Productions, which has financed and produced movies by directors including Robert Rodriguez, Darren Aronofsky and Gela Babluani.

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Rick Schwartz (domainer)

Rick Schwartz is an American domain name entrepreneur.

Domain name industry

By 1999 Schwartz owned more than 3,000 domains, buying both in auctions and directly from owners via email. His most valuable early property was Porno.com, for which he paid $42,000 in 1997. Schwartz made a high profile sale in 2003 when he sold the domain name Men.com for $1.3 million to a magazine company, a domain which he had purchased for $15,000 in 1997. Schwartz stated at the time that he sold the property at a lower value than it would fetch in the future in order to purchase a broader variety of other domain names before the market rebounded in the mid-2000s. He then sold Candy.com for more than $3 million. He also owned Property.com and Properties.com. He acquired the initial first few thousand names working with his first wife and expanded the business after divorced, by himself. By 2008 he had acquired over 6,000 different domains. He has sold domains for as much as $750,000 that he purchased for $100 in the late-1990s, such as his sale of iReport.com to CNN.

Boa constrictor

The boa constrictor or red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor) is a species of large, heavy-bodied snake. It is a member of the family Boidae found in North, Central, and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. A staple of private collections and public displays, its color pattern is highly variable yet distinctive. Ten subspecies are currently recognized, although some of these are controversial. This article focuses on the species Boa constrictor as a whole, but also specifically on the nominate subspecies B. c. constrictor.

Common names

Though all boids are constrictors, only this species is properly referred to as a "boa constrictor" - a rare instance of an animal having the same common English name and scientific binomial name.

All subspecies are referred to as "boa constrictors", while the nominate subspecies, B. c. constrictor, is often referred to specifically as the "red-tailed boa". Within the exotic pet trade, it is also known as a "BCC", an abbreviation of its scientific name, to distinguish it from other boa constrictor subspecies such as B. c. imperator, which is also regularly, and erroneously, referred to as a "red-tailed boa" or "common boa".

Boa constrictor (disambiguation)

Boa constrictor may refer to:

See also

Boa

Boa, BoA, or BOA may refer to:

Snakes

Film

Computing

People with the given name Boa

Boa (album)

Boa is the debut album by the Croatian and former Yugoslav eponymous rock band. It was released in 1982.

Track listing

Side A

Side B

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Boa (Croatian band)

Boa is a Croatian music group, which was especially prominent during the 1980s around the former SFR Yugoslavia.

History

The band's early history started in Zagreb, then SR Croatia in 1974, when its founding members Mladen Puljiz and Slavko Remenarić, switched their interest from classical music to rock music, inspired by art rock acts such as Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.

The group started its concert activity in 1979 with a line-up consisted of: Mladen Puljiz (keyboards, vocals), Slavko Remenarić (guitar), Igor Šoštarić (drums) and Damir Košpić (bass guitar). The band moved towards the then actual New Romantic sound and fashion and after the release of their debut album for Suzy in 1982, they were voted by the readers of the prominent Yugoslav musical magazine Džuboks as the best upcoming act of the year.

Their next album Ritam strasti (Rhythm of passion) followed by around a hundred concerts around former Yugoslavia brought them even higher popularity. Despite the fact that their next album Govor tijela (Body language) included some successful hits, the band fell into creative crisis and thus the group halted its activities until 1989 when the group got a new rhythm section consisted of the drummer Paolo Sfeci (former member of Aerodrom and Parni valjak) and the bass player Zvonimir Bučević (prominent session musician).