1.   As the Kaufman Astoria Studios, it has been used by directors like Sidney Lumet, Alan J. Pakula and Woody Allen.

2.   Ask directors like JoAnne Akalaitis, Howard Davies or Mark Lamos.

3.   At another level, he has concluded that directors like himself face a stiff challenge in adapting theater to the new times.

4.   Attempts to change it go back decades and have defied the best efforts of attorneys general like Edward Levi and FBI directors like Judge William Webster.

5.   Between tapings he worked with film directors like Sidney Lumet and Oliver Stone.

6.   A nonpareil action director like John Woo uses tension in an enclosed space the same way that great musical directors like Stanley Donen and Mark Sandrich did.

7.   Actors from Meryl Streep to Gene Hackman and directors like Martin Scorsese and Curtis Hanson offer their perspectives on what Eastwood has managed to achieve in his career.

8.   But even a maverick director like Altman has had negligible results with the format.

9.   Could directors like Fincher be taking slick revenge on the business that nurtured them?

10.   Critics said he never quite developed a singular style the way directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks, or Vincente Minnelli did.