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Much was made of the dismissal by a Los Angeles federal judge of charges against Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain in the 1985 torture-murder of D.E.A. agent Enrique Camarena. But the prosecution did not come away completely empty-handed. Alvarez's co-defendant, Ruben Zuno Arce, a Mexican businessman and brother-in-law of former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, was convicted in the same court. According to the jury, Zuno helped plan Camarena's kidnapping and was present while he was tortured. He could receive life...
...funniest hour on TV, begins to feel restless in his late-late (12:35 a.m. est) time slot. But when the job he covets -- host of the Tonight show -- becomes available, it goes to Jay Leno. With his NBC contract expiring next spring, Letterman hires a new agent, Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and starts entertaining offers. Everyone from the Fox Network (which wants to team Letterman in a late-night bloc with Chevy Chase) to major syndicators like Viacom (which offers Letterman additional exposure on its cable networks MTV and VH-1) weighs in with lucrative bids...
...understands the stakes at Malcolm X better than Earl C. At night he works as a federal undercover narcotics agent. By day he volunteers his time providing security and a reassuring presence at the school. Earl, a former Golden Gloves boxing champion, is rough-edged and straight talking. A father of six, he can also be a gentle man, and is often seen crossing the playground or walking the halls, a knot of adoring children at his side...
...Aspen is still, for many of the richly famous, the place to be. Jack Nicholson will be there this winter, says his agent, "as a show of support | for the people of that community, which overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 2." Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, significant contributors to AIDS groups, say they are troubled by the vote but have no plans to move. Other fun couples -- Robert Wagner and Jill St. John, Chris Evert and Andy Mill -- are expected to be on view, somewhere between the chateaus and the inevitable pickets...
...klutz who never exercised anything but his ego, Selznick was the son of one of the industry's pioneer pirates, a high roller who was quickly rolled over by better organized competitors. Thomson hints at a streak of madness in the Selznick line (one brother, Myron, a legendary Hollywood agent, died of alcoholism; another was institutionalized for many years). But in David's case it looked at first like genius. He was head of production at RKO at 30, had his own unit at MGM a year later, his own company four years after that. And he oversaw some...