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TULA, Russia: Six months after he was ousted in a Kremlin power struggle, former Yeltsin bodyguard and right-hand man Alexander Korzhakov has returned to power and is threatening to uncover a dark history of Kremlin corruption. Korzhakov's election to parliament, which gives him the added benefit of immunity from prosecution, gives him a significant base to work against archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press...
...then repeat the sequence half a dozen times. One person in the crowd is not watching the actors: a tall, well-muscled man, standing with his arms folded, named Bob Izzard. Each time the cameras roll, he looks in the opposite direction at the crowd. He is Madonna's bodyguard...
...which was made for a relatively frugal $17 million and took in $65 million. But Sherak says the film didn't attract white audiences despite a hit sound-track album and the presence of Houston, who had already proved herself a box-office draw opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard. "We tried to sell the story of four friends, not looking at color," Sherak remembers of the Waiting to Exhale marketing campaign. "But it didn't cross over. [Whites] felt like it was made for an African-American audience...
...because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure. Her enemies--particularly Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former chief bodyguard, and the ousted national security adviser Alexander Lebed--complain loudly that Chubais is manipulating Dyachenko. In a recent interview, Korzhakov claimed that Chubais prepares key documents that Dyachenko then persuades her ailing father to sign. Lebed remarked scornfully in another recent interview that like any woman, Dyachenko is "impressionable." Their outrage...
...BODYGUARD CAUGHT WITH HIS GUARD DOWN