Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NANCY KERRIGAN, 25, took a little more luster off her onetime image as America's sports sweetheart by getting engaged to her 40-year-old manager, JERRY SOLOMON. Kerrigan's mom broke the news that the Washington-based agent had presented Nancy with a ring (ice, of course) last month. Solomon, who separated from his first wife in 1993, has said in the past that he and the Olympic skating medalist drew closer after she was clubbed on the leg in January 1994. Wedding details are still unclear, but afterward they're probably not going to Disney World...
...book is something Berendt, a former editor of New York magazine and current columnist for Esquire, had not anticipated. A native of Syracuse, New York, he got the idea for his book three years after he took a weekend trip to Savannah in 1982. But the first literary agent to whom he submitted his manuscript turned it down, claiming it was too local and uncommercial. "When I was writing it people asked me if I thought it would be a best seller," says Berendt, "and I said, 'Are you kidding?' I thought it would be a cult favorite...
...Supreme Court announced today that it will decide whether the federal government must cover the liabilities of chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange for use during the Vietnam War. The companies are seeking $31 million from the government to reimburse them for a legal settlement with Vietnam veterans over health problems that they claim stemmed from contact with the defoliant. The firms say the government should pay because it required them to manufacture the chemical for wartime...
...problem has always been to discern, in advance, in helpful detail, how to pass Go and (nowadays) collect $200 million domestic, God knows what in the ancillaries. For movie trends-or even individual hits-do not reveal themselves until they are actually thundering down on us. No executive, no agent, certainly no mere movie reviewer usually spots one until it is actually rolling over his toes, sharp pain belatedly signaling where the most money is likely to be found for the next few months-and that the victim has once again been looking for it in all the wrong places...
...these results strongly suggest that, contrary to the owners' contentions, small market teams have not been decisively impaired by the current free-agent system...