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...former first baseman and broadcaster will succeed A. Bartlett Giamatti when the current president relieves departing Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth in April. "Bill was hired because he was the best man," Ueberroth said. Insisted Los Angeles Dodger President Peter O'Malley, who chaired the search committee: "Race did not play a factor." Still, the pressure baseball has been feeling is well known...
...Thatcher government, showing its determination to push ahead with the medical-service reforms, will issue eight working papers in the next two weeks. The resulting legislation will be submitted to Parliament, where its chances of passing are considered good. As for the legal reforms, a bill is expected to be ready by this fall. Despite the barristers' all-out campaign to block the changes, there is a widespread feeling that their monopoly is nearing...
...suddenly. "The illegals have been by. They come through here and at other spots on their way in. If we don't get a handle on Third World debt, we'll be overrun by Mexicans coming here to work. It's got to be one of our main priorities . . . Bill Bradley and I disagree about how to deal with the debt problem. He wants to force the banks to restructure debt. I say that's probably unconstitutional, and even if it isn't, the only way we can do things like that is through voluntary negotiation. But Bradley...
Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...
...share of feuds, most notably with David Puttnam, who lost his job as chairman of Columbia Pictures last year after alienating much of the Hollywood establishment. Insiders say the abrasive Puttnam's most expensive gaffe may have been his brusque treatment of Ovitz and CAA client Bill Murray. Recalling a spat with Ovitz, agent Bernie Brillstein explains, "I didn't pander ((to Ovitz)), which was probably the source of our fallout...