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Howard Hawks was not the first choice ; Roy Del Ruth and Lewis Milestone had been set to direct before Hawks got the job.
Smith had a career revival in the 1980s and 1990s, again recording for Blue Note and Verve, and for Milestone and Elektra.
Original director Lewis Milestone, who had previously filmed All Quiet on the Western Front, A Walk in the Sun and Pork Chop Hill, left the production, either because Milestone thought that the script was inadequate, or because the studio was unhappy with cost overruns during Milestone's tenure.
Milestone concluded that the lack of digital licences rendered the stations non-viable and all channels had ceased broadcasting by April 2009, including the original Oxford channel.
The Milestone Group had one television channel:
Due to problems with creditors, Bronston had to shut down production and the project was taken over by Superior Productions, which included the director Lewis Milestone Bronston filed a lawsuit, and in an out-of-court settlement received 21. 25 % of the film's profits.
Milestone authorized the shooting of such a scene but whether it was filmed but later edited out of the release no one is sure ; however, a brief scene in the landing craft has the platoon sergeant explaining to the men, and the audience, that they had been briefed on their mission.
Shortly after the festival, three film professionals who had screened I Am Cuba at the San Francisco screening contacted friends at Milestone Films in New York.
In essence, DC had in effect licensed the characters, editorial services, and creative content of the Milestone books for an annual fee and a share of the profits.
The biggest conflict they had was when an issue of Static showed the hero kissing his girlfriend, which DC didn't want to publish on grounds that it was using sex to sell comics ( which many DC covers at the time did ); Milestone covered most of the image as a compromise, and McDuffie believed it made DC uncomfortable because it was specifically " black sexuality ".
They also suffered from several disadvantages: The comics market was experiencing a glut of " new universes " as several other publishers launched superhero lines around the same time ( a slump would start in 1993 and a market crash in 1994 ,) a significant number of retailers and readers perceived the Milestone books to be " comics for blacks " and assumed they would not interest non-African-American readers, the books received limited exposure beyond existing comics-shop customers, the coloring process added slightly to the cover price of their books, and overall comics sales had peaked around the time of Milestone's launch and declined dramatically in the years that followed.
Milestone provided the opportunity for many emerging talents who had been passed over by larger established companies, beginning the careers of many comic industry professionals.
In 1990, Milestone Radio applied to the CRTC for an urban music station in Toronto, which would have been the first such station in Canada, but that application was denied in favour of a country music station — which Toronto already had on its radio dial.
In a controversial decision, the CBC was awarded the 99. 1 frequency over Milestone Radio, who had applied to open an urban music station, which would have been the first station operating under that format in Canada, to serve the city's large black community.
He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part.
The station's licensing by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had been controversial, because the CRTC had passed over an application by Milestone Radio for an urban music station, which would have been a new format in the Toronto market, in favour of Rawlco's application to serve a niche which was already served by existing stations.
Eight people died instantly of accidental causes and six others were injured and trapped when the floor of a 100-year-old tavern, called Milestone, collapsed into the basement, where they had taken shelter.
All of the town ’ s residents had made it to storm shelters by the time the tornado hit ; however, no one could predict that the Milestone would collapse due to the force of the tornado.

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This means the game can be run on several Android powered devices, most notably the Motorola Milestone, Motorola Droid, and the Nexus One, as well as other high specification Handsets.
In 2009, following Final Crisis, publisher DC Comics used the reality-altering events of the series to assimilate the characters of several other defunct publishers ( the Red Circle heroes, the THUNDER Agents, and the characters of Milestone Media ) into their own universe.
Milestone was criticized by several black independent companies and creators for their DC deal, claiming that Milestone Media was compromising itself by working with a ' white ' company like DC Comics and was being used by DC to undermine independent black companies.
Milestone cancelled several of its lower-selling series in 1995 and 1996, and aborted plans for several mini-series.
Taking place in the original Milestone Universe, it detailed the final fate of several of Dakota's heroes and revealed the events that led to its merger into the DC Universe.

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The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.
Despite this requirement for the Hays whitewash squad, Solow and Milestone retain all of the virility of the piece in its original form.
The Milestone was the main club for a good period of time, until a boycott began against the club, and its owner.
In 2002 on the 75th anniversary of the plant, its historic status was recognised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers, who marked the facility as an Engineering Milestone of the 20th century.
Like Wolfman's run, this era was prominent for its team-ups between DC heroes and the characters of Milestone Media.
In the 2010 limited series Milestone Forever, which details the end of the original Milestone universe before its merger into the DCU, the truth behind Dharma's actions is shown.
The Milestone Group company gained further licences to broadcast in Southampton, Fawley, Reading and Portsmouth in 2003 after the re-advertising of the four-year contracts and successfully renewed its contract to broadcast to Oxford.
In August 2005 Guardian Media Group ( GMG ) increased its shareholding in Reading 107 FM from 37. 8 % to a controlling stake of 60. 3 % when Milestone Radio Group decided to sell ; the remaining shareholding being owned by the Goodhead Group plc, a company controlled by Reading Football club chairman John Madejski.
Fusion Radio Holdings were purchased by the Milestone Group in April 2003, taking control of the former's similarly named Fusion 107. 9 station in Oxford, and adding a second operation to its portfolio of London-based radio stations-the first being Time 106. 8, operating from studios in Plumstead.
The company also retains its minority shares in the Haliburton, Milestone and Martz radio groups, although both Haliburton and Martz have sold off many of their assets in 2008 as well.
The PJB-100 was the first MP3 portable to garner a " Milestone " product designation from MP3 Newswire, which they defined in their January 2000 review of the PJB-100 as " any product whose breakthrough innovations are so significant, they influence the future course of its industry ".
It referred to the return of the multi-ethnic Milestone Comics universe and its crossover into the less diverse DC Comics universe.
In 1993, Milestone Media launched its first batch of titles: Hardware, Icon, Blood Syndicate and Static.
A year later, Milestone Media published its first company-wide crossover, Shadow War, which spawned two more titles: Shadow Cabinet and Xombi.
Milestone shut down its comic book division in 1997, with some of the remaining ongoing series discontinued in mid-story.
The following year, Dubmatique broke through as the first Quebec rap band to top Canada's francophone pop charts, and some controversy erupted in Toronto when Milestone was again passed over for an urban radio station on its second application.
The recipients included Emil Jannings, the first person to receive an Academy Award, for Best Actor for the films The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command ; Janet Gaynor for Best Actress, for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ; Frank Borzage for Best Director, Drama for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Best Director, Comedy for Two Arabian Knights ; and the film Wings, the most expensive film of its time, became the Best Picture recipient.
At its fortieth anniversary, it was named both a " Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing " and also a " Mechanical Engineering Landmark "
Following the success of Image Comics ( a studio of comics ' top artists each publishing their own book contained in its own mini-universe ) and Valiant Comics ( a cohesive universe shared by all the Valiant characters ; the model the Ultraverse line aimed to imitate ), a number of new universes were launched including Milestone from DC and Comics Greatest World from Dark Horse.
The newspaper was launched in association with local radio station Kestrel FM in 2000, and was owned by the Milestone Group until it was sold in a management buyout in September 2006, its owners now being Tri-Media Publishing.

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