The US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, was pulled from that country last month.
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Pitt stars in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a long-delayed drama about the notorious American outlaw.
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After a similar situation in November, U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said Syria had shut down the Internet in the past.
James also humors his young admirer, Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), who starts off wanting to imitate his hero and ends up killing him.
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After a similar situation in November, U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told CNN that Syria had shut down the Internet in the past.
Among them is U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford, who has been in the United States since February, when the U.S. government closed its embassy in Damascus.
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Robert Ford, the former U.S. envoy to Syria, said the Obama administration was concerned and trying to verify the reports out of Aleppo province and the Damascus suburbs.
In this movie, as in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, " the physically slight, baby-faced actor is called upon to soak up a lot of patronizing put-downs.
Before the premiere, Pitt picked up an award that he won in Venice last year - the best actor's prize for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
It will be interesting to see if the drawing power of Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt (in the forthcoming "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") can buck that trend.
There's a report out of Damascus that Syria has accepted the President's candidate for ambassador there, Robert Stephen Ford.
"They're attempting to trick the existing calibration on the vehicles, " complains Robert Adams , Ford Motor's liaison with aftermarket partsmakers.
Biographer John Robert Greene says Ford and his holdover secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, considered no other option than military force.
Even Ford executives bare all: "We're in trouble because we lost touch with the consumer, " says Robert Shanks, Ford vice president and controller, the Americas.
The group was known as "New Hollywood" and their ranks numbered Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Organisers of the Rome festival, which is in its sixth year, cited Gere's body of work with directors including Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola.
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The screening-room designer most in demand is Jeff Cooper, an MIT-educated architect and acoustic engineer who has built facilities for George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis and, most recently, Mr. Spielberg.
If Robert Reich wants to praise Ford for his relentless effort to reduce labor costs, drive his competitors out of business, make horse-drawn transport obsolete, and become fabulously wealthy by offering the best valued products to the largest number of customers, sign me up.
Recall 1974's more immaculately fashioned movie version of "Gatsby, " which was directed by ace literary adaptor Jack Clayton ("The Innocents"), boasted a screenplay by "The Godfather's" Francis Ford Coppola and starred Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy and Sam Waterston as Nick.
Cerberus' "deep bench, " as LaSorda puts it, includes Wolfgang Bernhard, Chrysler's former chief operating officer, and David Thursfield, Ford Motor 's former head of international operations, along with Robert Rewey and Gary Dilts, former sales and marketing executives at Ford and Chrysler, respectively.
Today, he says famous directors like Francis Ford Coppola , James Cameron and Robert Rodriquez are shooting films in digital format.
"Henry's premise was: The more you control production, the more you can control what you sell the car for, too, " said Ford Motor's historian, Robert Kreipke.
Scheduled to testify are Ford CEO Alan Mulally, Chrysler boss Robert Nardelli, GM CEO G.
Each of these six men--Robert Wood Johnson, Will Keith Kellogg, Henry Ford, John MacArthur, J.
His body was found, along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, inside the family's Ford Bronco.
That augurs well for GM's RickWagonerRick Wagoner, Ford's AlanMulallyAlan Mulally and Chrysler's Robert Nardelli as they prepare for day two of hearings before the House Financial Services Committee Friday.
Cerberus' "deep bench, " as LaSorda puts it, includes Wolfgang Bernhard, Chrysler's former chief operating officer, and David Thursfield, Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) former head of international operations, along with Robert Rewey and Gary Dilts, former sales and marketing executives at Ford and Chrysler, respectively.
It's somewhat reminiscent of Henry Ford II's famous Whiz Kids--people like Robert S. McNamara and Arjay Miller, who were brought in from the U.S. military after World War II to turn around a company then in dire shape.
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