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Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular flameouts: Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): "The auteur theory killed all these people.
The erstwhile pirate thus became a policeman during the last years of his life.
It is also true that its erstwhile rival has collapsed rather utterly.
A potentially significant conflict is opening up between Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who's been a driving force in the Flytrap scandal, and Julie Steele, the erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey who says Willey told her to lie to Isikoff.
Soon erstwhile Photo-Secessionists were chafing under the harness, but Strand immediately took to the more conservative elements, and between 1911 and 1913 he produced appropriately languid views of shimmering water; decorative sheep; and unfocused, mildly erotic light effects.