Look up story or stories in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Story or Stories may refer to:

• Story, a recounting of a sequence of events
• Narrative
• Story (surname)
• Story, or storey, a floor or level of a building
• Stories, colloquial, US American expression for soap operas

Media[link]

• Story (magazine), an American literary magazine published 1931–1961 and 1989–2000
• The Story with Dick Gordon, a radio interview program that debuted in 2006
• Story, one of the main characters in the 2006 film Lady in the Water
• Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, a screenwriting guide by Robert McKee.

Music[link]

Artists

• The Story (UK band), an English psych-folk band 2002-present
• Stories (band), an early 1970s American rock group
• The Story (band), an early 1990s folk-rock duo

Albums

• Story (Amorphis album), compilation, 2000
• The Story (Brandi Carlile album), 2007
• Story (Eric Clapton album), compilation, 1991
• A Story, 1997 album by Yoko Ono, recorded in 1974
• Stories (Mayumi Iizuka album), 2008
• Stories (Addison Road album), 2010
• Stories (Gloria Gaynor album), 1980
• Stories (A Narada Artist Collection), 1998 compilation
• Stories (Randy Stonehill album), compilation
• The Story, 2006 album by Bizzy Bone
• Story, 1970 album by Honeybus

Songs

• "The Story" (song), 2007, by Brandi Carlile from her album The Story
• "Story" (Leddra Chapman song), 2009 single
• "Stories" (Boney M. song), 1990 single
• "Stories" (Therapy? song), 1995 single
• "Stories", a song from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
• "The Story", song by 30 Seconds to Mars from their album A Beautiful Lie
• "Story", B-side of the "Makes Me Wonder" single by Maroon 5

People with given name Story[link]

• Story Musgrave (born 1935), American doctor and astronaut
• Story Tweedie-Yates (born 1983), professional American tennis player

Places[link]

• Story, Indiana, United States
• Story, Wyoming, United States
• Story City, Iowa, United States
• Story County, Iowa, United States
• Fort Story, a sub-installation of the United States Navy and Little Creek Amphibious Base
• Story, Arkansas, United States

See also[link]

Wikiversity has learning materials about Story

• Storey (disambiguation)

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Tel Be'er Sheva, Israel

A tell or tel, (from Hebrew: תֵּל‎‎,^[1] also tel or tell from Arabic: تلّ‎, tall)^[2] is a type of archaeological mound created by human occupation and abandonment of a geographical site over many centuries. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with a flat top and sloping sides.^[1]

Archaeology[link]

Tel Yokneam, Israel

A tell is a hill created by different civilizations living and rebuilding in the same spot. Over time, the level rises, forming a mound. ^[3] Excavating a tell reveals buried structures such as government or military buildings, religious shrines and homes, located at different depths depending on their date of use. They often overlap, horizontally, vertically, or both. Archaeologists excavate tell sites to interpret architecture, purpose, and date of occupation. Since excavating a tell is a destructive process, physicists and geophysicists have developed non-destructive methods of mapping tell sites.^[4]

References[link]

Ancient Near East portal

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Sarah Polley
Polley at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, September 11, 2009
Born	(1979-01-08) January 8, 1979 (age 33) Toronto, Ontario
Occupation	Film director, actress, screenwriter
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	David Wharnsby (2003–2008) (divorced) David Sandomierski (2011-)

Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea. She has also starred in such films as Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dawn of the Dead, Splice, and Mr. Nobody.

Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her, for which she won a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley's second film, Take This Waltz, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011.^[1]

Early life[link]

Polley, the youngest of five children, was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the daughter of Diane Elizabeth (née MacMillan), an actress and casting director, and Michael Polley, a British-born actor and insurance agent (he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada).^[2][3][4] Polley's mother died of cancer just after Polley's 11th birthday. Polley attended Subway Academy II, then Earl Haig Secondary School, but dropped out before graduating.

Career[link]

Early career and fall-out with Disney[link]

Her first cinematic appearance was at the age of four, as Molly in the Disney film One Magic Christmas. At age eight, she was cast as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. That same year, she also played one of the lead characters in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Polley burst into the public eye the following year as Sara Stanley on the popular CBC television series Road to Avonlea. The series made her famous and financially independent, and she was hailed as "Canada's Sweetheart" by the popular press.^{[citation needed]}

The show was picked up by the Disney Channel for distribution in the United States. At the age of 12 (around 1991), Polley attended an awards ceremony while wearing a peace sign to protest the first Gulf War. Disney executives asked her to remove it, and she refused. This soured her relationship with Disney, and she left Road to Avonlea in 1994.^[5] The show itself was cancelled in 1996, although she did return as Sara Stanley for an episode in 1995 and for the final episode in 1996.^{[citation needed]}

Polley at the premiere of Mr. Nobody at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.

Acting career as adult[link]

Polley appeared as Lily on the CBC television series, Straight Up. It ran from 1996–1998 and she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series for her role. Polley's subsequent role as Nicole Burnell in the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter, brought her considerable attention in the United States; she was a fan favourite at the Sundance Film Festival. Her character in the film was an aspiring singer — on the soundtrack, she performed a cover of The Tragically Hip's "Courage" and Jane Siberry's "One More Colour", as well as the film's title track which she co-wrote with Mychael Danna. "Courage" was also played in the ending of an episode of Charmed, "Long Live the Queen" (Season 4 Episode 20). Polley appeared to two critically acclaimed small movies; 1998's Last Night, and the well-received 1999 film Go with budding actress Katie Holmes, to end out the 1990s.

She was cast in the role of Penny Lane in the big-budget 2000 film Almost Famous, but dropped out of the project to return to Canada for the low-budget The Law of Enclosures. Her role in the 2003 film My Life Without Me, garnered the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 2004. In the same year, she starred in a lead role in the stylish and successful remake of Dawn of the Dead, which was a departure from her other indie roles. In 2005 she starred in The Secret Life of Words, opposite Tim Robbins and Julie Christie. She was nominated as Best European Actress by the European Film Academy for her role as Hanna.^[6] In 2008, Polley appeared as Nabby Adams in the HBO miniseries based on the life of John Adams. Polley appeared topless in one episode, in which her character has a mastectomy because of breast cancer.

Polley played Elise in Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody, which was released in 2010. The film was mostly funded through European financiers, and was given limited release in certain countries.^[7] Critical response has praised the film's artistry and Polley's acting.^[8]

Directing career[link]

She made her feature-length film directing debut with Away from Her, based on the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain. The movie, starring Julie Christie, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2006 as part of the TIFF's Gala showcase. Away from Her was acquired by Lionsgate for release in the US for the sum of $750,000. It drew rave reviews from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the three Toronto dailies, both for the performances of Christie and her co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, and for Polley's direction. It also earned Polley a 2008 Academy Award nomination for her adapted screenplay and won the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction (the first woman to do so). At the 2008 Genies, she was also awarded the Claude Jutra Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by a first-time feature film director.

Polley takes pride in her work and enjoys both acting and directing but is not keen on combining the two. "I like the feeling of keeping them separate. I find that really gratifying. I can't imagine combining those. For me, I love the feeling of using different parts of my brain separately."^[9]

Political and social activism[link]

Following the row with Disney, Polley dedicated more of her efforts to politics, becoming a prominent member of the New Democratic Party, where Ontario legislator Peter Kormos was said to be her political mentor.

In 1995, she lost two back teeth after being struck by a riot police officer during a protest against the Provincial Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris in Queen's Park.^[3][10] She was subsequently involved with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. She has recently scaled back her political activism.^[10]

She was part of a group in 2001 which opposed the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The 3rd Summit of the Americas was held in Quebec City in April 2001.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, she was part of former Toronto mayor David Miller's transition advisory team.

In 2009, Polley directed a two-minute short in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. In advance of the film's airing in Canada during the 82nd Academy Awards, and following news reports that characterized the film as a marketing exercise for the margarine company Becel,^[11][12][13] Polley withdrew her association with the film. "In December 2009, I made a film to be aired during the Academy Awards that I believed was to promote the Heart and Stroke Foundation. When I agreed to make this film ["The Heart"], I was thrilled, as I was proud to be associated with the work of this incredible organization. However, I have since learned that my film is also being used to promote a product. Regretfully, I am forced to remove my name from the film and disassociate myself from it. I have never actively promoted any corporate brand, and cannot do so now."^[14][15][16] In response, Becel said it was a "founding sponsor" of the Heart Truth campaign and had commissioned the film "to put heart health on the radar of Canadian women".^[17]

In January 2012, Polley endorsed Toronto MP Peggy Nash in the 2012 New Democratic Party leadership race to succeed Jack Layton.^[18]

Personal life[link]

Polley is an atheist.^[19] On September 10, 2003 she married Canadian film editor David Wharnsby, her companion of seven years. In 2008 they divorced.^[20]

On August 23, 2011 she married Canadian law clerk David Sandomierski. Sandomierski is working on his PhD in law at the University of Toronto. Their first child was due at the end of February 2012.

Filmography[link]

Polley at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

Director and writer[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

On June 8, 2010, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.^[21]

ACTRA

• 2006 – ACTRA Toronto Award of Excellence (Won)

Academy Awards

• 2008 – Best Adapted Screenplay, Away from Her (Nominee)

Chlotrudis Awards

• 2008–Best Director, Away from Her, (Nominated)
• 2008–Best Adapted Screenplay, Away from Her, (Won)
• 2008–Best Actress, The Secret Life of Words (Nominated)
• 2004–Best Actress, My Life Without Me (Won)
• 2002–Best Supporting Actress, The Claim (Nominated)
• 2000–Best Actress, Go and Guinevere, (Nominated)
• 1998–Best Actress, The Sweet Hereafter, (Nominated)

Director's Guild of Canada

• 2007–Best Feature Film :DGC Team Award, Away from Her (Won)
• 2007–Best Director :DGC Craft Award, Away from Her (Nominated)

Gemini Awards

• 2007–Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series, Slings and Arrows (Nominated)
• 1998–Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, Straight Up (Won)
• 1998–Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, The Planet of Junior Brown (Nominated)
• 1998–Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, White Lies (Nominated)
• 1994–Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Road to Avonlea (Nominated)
• 1993–Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Road to Avonlea (Nominated)
• 1992–Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Lantern Hill (Won)
• 1990–Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Road to Avonlea (Nominated)
• 1988–Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Ramona, (Nominated)

Genie Awards

• 2008–Claude Jutra Award, (Special Prize)
• 2008–Best Director, Away from Her, (Won)
• 2008–Best Adapted Screenplay, Away from Her, (Won)
• 2004–Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, My Life Without Me, (Won)
• 2003–Best Live Action Short Drama, I Shout Love (Won)
• 2002–Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, The Law of Enclosures (Nominated)
• 1997–Best Original Song, The Sweet Hereafter, (Nominated)
• 1997–Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, The Sweet Hereafter, (Nominated)

Independent Spirit Awards

• 2000–Best Supporting Female, Go, (Nominated)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sarah Polley

• Sarah Polley at the Internet Movie Database
• 2007 Interview with Sarah Polley
• SarahPolley.org

Atom Egoyan
Egoyan at the Third Golden Apricot Film Festival, February 11, 2007
Born	Atom Yeghoyan (1960-07-19) July 19, 1960 (age 51) Cairo, Egypt
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Occupation	film director, stage director, screenwriter, producer & actor
Spouse	Arsinée Khanjian
Website
http://www.egofilmarts.com/

Atom Egoyan, OC (Armenian: Աթոմ Եղոյեան; born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian stage director and film director.^[1][2] Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994).^[3] His most critically acclaimed film is The Sweet Hereafter (1997),^[4] and his biggest commercial success is Chloe (2009).^[5]

Egoyan has been nominated for two Academy Awards - The Sweet Hereafter for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He also won several awards at Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Genie Awards.

His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.^[1]

In 2008 Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past".^[6]

Life and career[link]

Egoyan was born Atom Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Shushan (née Devletian) and Joseph Yeghoyan, artists who operated a furniture store.^[7] His parents were Armenian-Egyptians, and he was named Atom to mark the completion of Egypt's first nuclear reactor. In 1962, however, his parents left Egypt for Canada, where they settled in Victoria, British Columbia, and changed their last name to Egoyan. Atom and his sister, Eve, now a concert pianist based in Toronto, were raised by their parents in British Columbia.

As a boy, Atom's desire for assimilation into Canadian society and his struggle with his father led him to reject his family's Armenian culture.^{[citation needed]} However, years later, when he attended the University of Toronto, he began to study Armenian history.^[8]

As a teenager, he became interested in reading and writing plays. Significant influences included Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. Egoyan also attributes his future in the film industry to the film Persona, which he viewed at age fourteen, according to an interview he had with journalist Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life.

It gave me an incredible respect for the medium and its possibilities. To me, Persona marries a pure form and a very profound vision with absolute conviction. It’s very inspiring. I felt that it was able to open a door that wasn’t there before.^[9]

He graduated from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. It was at Trinity College that Egoyan came into contact with Harold Nahabedian, the Armenian-Canadian Anglican Chaplain of Trinity College. In interviews Egoyan credited Nahabedian for introducing him to the language and history of his ethnic heritage.

Egoyan is now based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife Arsinée Khanjian, a trilingual (English, French and Armenian) Armenian-Canadian actress who appears in many of Egoyan's films, and their son, Arshile (named after the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky), who attends the Toronto French School. In 1999, Atom Egoyan was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Egoyan has directed a dozen full-length films, several television episodes, and a few shorter pieces. His early work was based on his own material. In 1984, his debut film "Next of Kin" worldpremiered at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and won a major prize. He received some notice for the film Exotica (1994), but it was Egoyan's first attempt at adapted material that resulted in his best-known work, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which earned him universal critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

He also directed Sarabande featuring Khanjian, Lori Singer, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma's performance of Bach's Fourth Suite for Unaccompanied Cello, as part of the latter's Inspired by Bach film series for Sony Classical.

The film Ararat (2002) generated much publicity for Egoyan. After Henri Verneuil's French-language film Mayrig (1991), it was the first major motion picture to deal directly with the Armenian Genocide. Ararat later won the Best Picture prize at the Genie Awards.

In 2004 Egoyan opened Camera Bar, a 50-seat cinema-lounge on Queen Street West in Toronto.

In 2005 Atom Egoyan joined the faculty of the media and communications division at European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts intensive summer seminars.^[1] Beginning in September 2006, Egoyan taught at the University of Toronto for three years.^[10] He joined the faculty of arts and science as the dean's distinguished visitor in theatre, film, music and visual studies.

In 2006, he received the Master of Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.

Later, he directed the erotic thriller Chloe (2009), theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 26, 2010. This film grossed $3 million in the United States theatrically and became one of the higher-grossing specialty films in the United States in 2010^[11](according to Variety, "$3 million is the new $10 million" for specialty films' box office in 2010^[12]). Several months after the DVD/Blu-ray release of Chloe, Atom Egoyan said that Chloe had made more money than any of his previous films.^[13] The success of Chloe led Egoyan to receive many scripts of erotic thrillers.^[14]

Egoyan has won four awards each at the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. He is due to present at the 2012 TARA Awards in early April.

Filmography[link]

Feature films[link]

TV films[link]

• In This Corner (1985)
• Gross Misconduct (1993)
• Sarabande (1997)
• Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

Short films[link]

• Howard in Particular (1979)
• After Grad with Dad (1980)
• Peep Show (1981)
• Open House (1982)
• Men: A Passion Playground (1985)
• Looking for Nothing (1988)
• Montréal vu par... / Montreal Sextet (1991)
  • segment: En passant (In Passing)
• A Portrait of Arshile (1995)
• The Line (2000)
• Diaspora (2001)
• Chacun son cinéma / To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
  • segment: Artaud Double Bill

Documentary films[link]

• Citadel (2003)

Bibliography[link]

• Dear Sandra Atom Egoyan, Volumina (2007)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ego Film Arts - official Web site
• Atom Egoyan Faculty page at European Graduate School (Includes biography, filmography, photos and video lectures)
• Atom Egoyan at the Internet Movie Database
• Atom Egoyan at AllRovi
• Order of Canada citation
• CTV.ca Filmmaker Egoyan set to teach at U. of Toronto
• Canadian Film Encyclopedia
• northernstar.ca
• Discussion of Egoyan's film, Calendar by Ron Burnett
• Literature on Atom Egoyan

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Howard Peter Guber (born March 1, 1942^{[1]:p. 61} in Boston, Massachusetts^{[1]:p. 61}) is an American film producer and executive and Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Films he personally produced or executive produced include Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing and Flashdance. Guber's films have earned over $3 billion worldwide and 50 Academy Award nominations.^[2] Guber is also a minority owner of two professional sports teams: the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.

Early life[link]

Peter Guber's parents Sam Guber and Ruth Anshen, of Jewish descent, married in 1929.^[1]:p.62 Peter's father owned a junk business in Somerville, Massachusetts.^[1]:p.62 As a child, Guber was noted for his intelligence, outgoing nature, high energy, aggressiveness, and extreme competitiveness.^[1]:p.61-62 He attended John Ward Elementary School and Newton North High School.^:p.62

Following high school graduation, Guber enrolled in the pre-law curriculum at Syracuse University. He played intramural football and pledged the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.^[1]:p.62-63 Guber spent his junior year abroad at Syracuse's Florence, Italy campus. At Syracuse he met his future wife, Lynda Gellis, the daughter of a kosher meat magnate and the "self-styled queen" of her sorority.^[1]:p.64

With the financial support of his wealthy new father-in-law, Guber enrolled at New York University for his J.D. and LL.M. law degrees, studying for his MBA at night.^[1]:p.64 (Though he later claimed otherwise on resumes, he would never finish the last degree.^[1]:p.80 As he neared graduation in 1968, Guber, tired of the bone-chilling winters in his native Northeast, accepted a position with Columbia Pictures as an assistant and management trainee.^[1]:p.64-65

Career[link]

Columbia Pictures[link]

Guber provoked both "contempt and grudging admiration" when he worked as executive Jerry Tokofsky's assistant.^[1]:p.68 Guber, an early proponent of computerization and entertainment technologies, began computerizing files on working actors and made available tape-recorded summaries of scripts for other executives to listen to while driving to work.^[1]:p.68-69 A year after arriving at Columbia, Guber, having witnessed a demonstration of an early video cassette machine, published "The New Ballgame/The Cartridge Revolution," a "prescient" analysis of the changes to be wrought by home video technology, in the journal Cinema.^[1]:p.69-70

Guber was transferred to the business affairs division after Tokofsky was fired, a position from which he watched his next two supervisors also be fired.^[1]:p.71 Guber paid to fly himself to Columbia's New York City office and successfully argued for his promotion to vice-president of creative affairs.^[1]:p.71-72 Shortly thereafter Guber was named head of American production, an advancement that, due to Columbia's power structure, had little authority.^[1]:p.73 In August 1973 he was promoted to vice-president of worldwide production. Partly because of a tendency to commit funds and project to multiple filmmakers and actors simultaneously, Guber was fired by Columbia president of production David Begelman in 1975, a fact he at first denied and then confessed to friends.^{[1]:p.79-80,82} Upon leaving, Guber was given the "golden parachute" of a three year production deal with the studio. During his time at Columbia the studio released, among other films, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Tommy, The Way We Were and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Independent producer[link]

Guber launched his career as an independent film producer with The Deep, which became the second highest-grossing film of the year.^[1]:p.86 (Though he hadn't liked the Peter Benchley book upon which the film was based, Guber later commented that the wet T-shirt clinging to curvaceous star Jacqueline Bisset "made me a rich man."^[1]:p.83,85) Guber also bought the rights and served as executive producer for Midnight Express. Produced by Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, the film earned seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The National Association of Theater Owners named Guber Producer of the Year.

Casablanca Record and Filmworks[link]

In 1976 Guber merged his company Filmworks with Casablanca Records, headed by Neil Bogart, to formed Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc. Guber became Chairman while Bogart remained President of the combined company. Their record operation included Kiss, Donna Summer, Captain and Tennille, The Village People, and George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic. It also released soundtracks such as Midnight Express, Endless Love, and Flashdance. During this period, Guber also produced several television shows and series, including Television and the Presidency (1984) with Theodore H. White, the 1985 documentary series Oceanquest for NBC, and the 1980 special Mysteries of the Sea for ABC.

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and the Guber-Peters Company[link]

After Bogart was forced out following the takeover of Casablanca by PolyGram in 1979, Guber formed PolyGram's motion picture and television division where he was Chairman of the Board and CEO. He sold his interest in PolyGram in 1983 and formed and served as co-owner of the Guber-Peters Company (GPC) along with producer Jon Peters.

Films on which Guber served as producer or executive producer have earned more than $3 billion in worldwide revenue and more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including four Best Picture nominations. Guber's producing credits include Rain Man, Batman, Gorillas in the Mist, The Color Purple, Innerspace, The Witches of Eastwick, Flashdance, Missing, Tango & Cash and An American Werewolf in London.

The extent to which Peters was involved in the making of these films has been a matter of disagreement, as has the quality of his contributions. Steven Spielberg, director of The Color Purple, had a clause written into his contract barring Guber from ever coming to the set.^[1]:p.127 Spielberg, who was later attached to Rain Man for several months as its director, has said that he "never had a single meeting" with Guber on either project.^[1]:p.162 Additionally, Guber and Peters became known for "leaving a trail of traumatized producers and directors in their wake."^[1]:p.136 With The Witches of Eastwick Guber was accused by producer Rob Cohen, who had originally approached Guber with the book, of having "bought the book out from under me" after negotiations had begun.^[1]:p.136-7 Subsequently, Cohen says, Guber offered him a "take it or leave it" deal to line produce the film at a rate that was one-third of Guber's own salary.^[1]:p.137 Guber, "having grabbed the material and secured the talent, disappeared" from what would become a very troubled shoot.^[1]:p.137 Michael Apted, director of Gorillas in the Mist, said that Guber "doesn't come to you with the greatest reputation," leading a filmmaker to think that Guber-Peters is "on the cusp of Hollywood sleaze there."^[1]:p.134

Sony Pictures[link]

In 1988, GPC became a public company when they merged with game show production company Barris Industries and on September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.^[3] On September 29, 1989, GPEC was acquired by Sony Corporation and Guber became Chairman of the Board and CEO of Columbia Pictures Entertainment (now Sony Pictures Entertainment). The sale was completed on November 9, 1989 a day after Sony acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment. During Guber's tenure at SPE, the company produced and distributed many prime time, half-hour comedy television series, with shows including Married with Children, Designing Women, and Seinfeld (all launched prior to Guber's arrival), and Mad About You and The Nanny.

During Guber's tenure as chairman and CEO, SPE's Motion Picture Group achieved, over four years, an industry-best domestic box office market share, which averaged seventeen percent. During the same period, Sony Pictures led all competitors with 120 Academy Award nominations, the highest four-year total ever for a single company. However, rampant spending by Guber and Peters led to their time at Sony to be viewed as a "disastrous tenure [that] Sony Pictures made them rich while it yielded bad, bloated movies and cost the company a fortune."^[4] Sony executive Mickey Schulhof asked Guber to resign in September 1994.^[1]:p.439

Mandalay Entertainment[link]

After leaving Sony, Guber formed Mandalay Entertainment, a multimedia entertainment company with interests in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media.

Golden State Warriors[link]

On July 15, 2010, Chris Cohan, previous owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, reached an agreement to sell the franchise for a record $450 million to Boston Celtics minority partner Joe Lacob and Guber.^[5]

Los Angeles Dodgers[link]

On March 27, 2012, Guber became a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers through his affiliation with Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC.^[6]

Films produced[link]

• The Deep (1977): producer
• Midnight Express (1978): executive producer
• An American Werewolf in London (1981): executive producer
• Missing (1982): executive producer
• Six Weeks (1982): producer
• Flashdance (1983): executive producer
• The Color Purple (1985): executive producer
• Clue (1985): executive producer
• Youngblood (1986): executive producer
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987): producer
• Innerspace (1987): executive producer
• Who's That Girl (1987): executive producer
• Rain Man (1988): executive producer
• Gorillas in the Mist (1988): executive producer
• Caddyshack II (1988): producer
• Tango & Cash (1989): producer
• Batman (1989): producer
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): executive producer
• Batman Returns (1992): executive producer
• This Boy's Life (1993): executive producer
• With Honors (1994): executive producer
• Sleepy Hollow (1999): producer
• The Score (2001): producer
• Enemy at the Gates (2001): producer
• Serving Sara (2002): producer
• Alex and Emma (2003): executive producer
• Beyond Borders (2003): producer
• Into the Blue (2005): executive producer
• The Jacket (2005): producer
• A Thousand Roads (2005): executive producer
• Montana Sky (made for television, 2007): executive producer
• Carolina Moon (made for television, 2007): executive producer
• Blue Smoke (made for television, 2007): executive producer
• Angels Fall (made for television, 2007): executive producer
• Tribute (made for television, 2009): executive producer
• High Noon (made for television, 2009): executive producer
• Midnight Bayou (made for television, 2009): executive producer
• Northern Lights (made for television, 2009): executive producer

Books[link]

• Guber, Peter (1977). Inside The Deep. Bantam. ISBN 978-0-553-11136-1. 
• Guber, Peter; Bart, Peter (2003). Shoot Out. Perigee Trade. ISBN 978-0-399-52888-0. 

Notes[link]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Henry Abbott (2010-06-15). "Five notes on the incoming Warriors owners". ESPN.com. http://espn.go.com/blog/TrueHoop/post/_/id/18206/five-notes-on-the-new-warriors-owners. Retrieved 2010-06-15. }

External links[link]

• Official website
• Peter Guber at the Internet Movie Database