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Though the Provenzinos were charged with a misdemeanor, the media attention created an aura of criminal notoriety. Six satellite trucks descended on the courthouse, and portions of the trial were broadcast by CNN and COURT TV, sandwiched between segments of the Bosnia war-crimes tribunal. Within minutes of the verdict, the jury foreman was telling COURT TV that the message here was to "get involved with your kids." But the picture painted in court was not of inattentive parents; it was of frightened ones. Asked who controlled the Provenzino household, Alex's friend Andrew Nowak, 17, testified, "Alex...
Much of the exodus can be directly linked to the departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...
...will continue to be a very well-run, very powerful talent agency," says Stephen Singular, whose unauthorized biography, Power to Burn: Michael Ovitz & the New Business of Show Business, is set for publication this summer by Birch Lane Press. "But," he adds, "the aura and intrigue the agency once enjoyed were a direct result of Ovitz's personality...
...Whitewater is bound to generate fresh subscandals to feed the ever growing appetite for drama. So convoluted is the scandal business that ethicsmeister Starr has hired his own ethics counselor, Sam Dash, which has in turn created its own spin-off controversy. The price for Dash's lingering aura of rectitude from his days as Watergate counsel--$3,200 weekly for eight hours of work--is almost as inflated as the $42,550 for 12 of Jackie O.'s ashtrays. Under questioning, Dash conceded that some of Starr's activities gave off an odor, but added later, to others...
Although the negative political campaigning has stopped, it will probably return during the national convention in August. But perhaps the feel-good aura of international cooperation during the Olympics will rub off on the candidates. While nations watch who are far poorer than we are, on the brink of civil war or recovering from its aftermath, or intent on building governments from scratch, candidates may be a little embarrassed to point to our own country as miserable...