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...WHEN STEVE ROSS, NEAR death with cancer, checked into a Los Angeles hospital in late 1992, he registered as George Bailey, the self-sacrificing common-man hero of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. No doubt that was how the man who masterminded the merger of Time Inc. (which owns TIME) and Warner Communications wished to be perceived. But the Steve Ross who emerges in Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster; 395 pages; $25), New Yorker staff writer Connie Bruck's intelligent and fascinating biography, is composed equally of George Bailey, Don Corleone, Felix Krull and Oskar Schindler...
...unable to ply his wiles, he was superseded at Time Warner by Gerald Levin. Superseded but not replaced. Ross was the inimitable master of the art of seduction. From Spielberg to the Time Inc. board, he convinced others that he wasn't a venal capitalist -- he was really George Bailey...
There are a few other characters in the film--Kyle's clowning pal Bugaloo (Marlon Wayans), Kyle's wise old white coach (David Bailey), Kyle's no-nonsense single mother (Tonya Pinkins)--but they don't really have that much to do. However, none of these things matter once the movie reaches the climactic five-on-five streetball tournament...
...schedule of film includes a wide variety by some notable esteemed film makers and producers such as Sam Fuller, John Bailey, Olivier Assays. Jean Pierre Gorin and David Brown; some that are the rising stars on both sides of the Atlantic such as Quentin Tarantino and other fledgling director such as Guy Jacques, Agnes Merlet, Nora Jacobson Matthew Harrison and Filip Forgeau. Tarantino's neo-noir, soon-to-be-classics. "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance" are to be shown. And even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero...
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was cleared of ethics charges after the judge refused to rule before the trial on the admissibility of evidence seized in a raid of the state treasury offices. Faced with the judge's decision, the prosecutors declined to go ahead with their case...