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...Titanic at $65 million and let 20th Century Fox lose sleep when costs soared.) Lansing herself shattered the glass ceiling for female executives when she became 20th Century Fox's president of production in 1980. The female moviegoing audience, which was largely ignored by studios in the 1970s and '80s, can thank Lansing for helping rediscover them through the success of Fatal Attraction and The Accused, which she produced with Stanley Jaffe. "She was one of the first people [since the Joan Crawford era] to make movies that were successful with female protagonists or antagonists," says Pascal, "movies where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women Who Run Hollywood | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...sound as if he were more steamed about the decision to end baseball's All-Star game in the 11th inning. No matter how stern Bush looks when he declares that bad guys should go to jail, he has not erased charges that as an oilman in the '80s, he profited from the same kind of sweetheart deals he now decries. Public opinion is focused not on the Beltway but on the boardroom, and the President's career, lineage and aspect all put him in one of the fancy leather swivel chairs. "CEO," an adviser warned the President, "has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Mistrust | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...kept the skin supple, held back heart disease, boosted old and brittle bones and might even have staved off senile dementia. More than 40% of all women in the U.S. start some form of HRT in their menopause years. Many of them continue well into their 70s and 80s, convinced that the little pills give them a youthful glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Hormones | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

SWONK: It started with Michael Milken and Henry Kravis, the hostile takeovers. You could actually fire a ceo. It started in the '80s, culminated in the '90s and was a massive trigger point to adopting new technologies more rapidly, and cost cutting becoming a mantra. People are rewarded for cost cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: A Jobless Recovery? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s and '80s, but he made a comeback in TV movies. DIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, the Disney animator who first drew Jiminy Cricket; in Arcadia, California. Kimball began his Disney career in 1934 and was part of the team that designed a more expressive Mickey Mouse. He also worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

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