1.   He brought together the network, cable, local affiliates and studio executives and helped broker the agreement for voluntary ratings.

2.   They echoed studio executives who found the film too soft.

3.   Amid the lavish presentations, several studio executives said costs need to be brought under control, a refrain that has been spoken but ignored by Hollywood for years.

4.   Analyst Arthur Rockwell of Yaeger Capital Markets, a former studio executive, said the down-to-the-wire tactics of Disney did not surprise him.

5.   And highly competitive and backbiting studio executives exchanged niceties between bites of lobster salad at Spago in Beverly Hills.

6.   And that box office was driven largely by female moviegoers, who are an increasingly potent force, producers and studio executives say.

7.   And studio executives, for TV networks and the movies, worried about their fates, the future of their studios, and the shifting power structures in Tinseltown.

8.   And yet Clooney still seems plagued by career doubts, partly because he was rejected for years by studio executives and movie directors.

9.   And, you know, we have no shortage of studio executives around to draw from.

10.   As late as Sunday morning, most studio executives, producers and talent agents were convinced that the Spielberg film would triumph.