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Salem was part of the inner circle around Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind, fiery Egyptian cleric who has been spiritual mentor both to the accused World Trade Center bombers and to members of the new ring. In fact Salem served for a time as Abdel Rahman's bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...
...pedals to work on his purple Phoenix bicycle dressed in jeans and a T shirt, with an amiable bodyguard tailing behind on another bike. At the office, he changes to his dressed-up look: a suit with a black T shirt. He says he wouldn't be caught dead in a guayabera, the traditional tropical shirt favored by older Cubans...
...while kids look for a new Aladdin or Home Alone, grownups will roam for romantic fare like the recent hits The Bodyguard and Indecent Proposal. That's why some industry swamis have picked Sleepless in Seattle, a sprightly romance, as the season's surprise hit. (Others chose Rookie of the Year and Free Willy.) And the only way that Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero could surprise Hollywood is if they don't hit the $100 million mark in their first four weeks of release...
...apologize for choking up as she recalls someone's kindness in the aftermath of her father's death. She is happiest when she remembers time alone with the President: just the two of them on Valentine's Day going down to the movie theater to see The Bodyguard, and then off to the Red Sage restaurant for dinner, where the manager, Don Senich, estimates they touched more in two hours than the Bushes did in four years...
...Turtles audience shows up," says Obst. "The women's audience doesn't -- not in bulk. And you need that bulk business for a picture to be widely released." In industry lingo, hit films can be classified by gender: action movies (Batman Returns) have immediate muscle; women's pictures (The Bodyguard) have long legs. As Ephron notes, "Teenage boys are driving the business because they'll go early and go back again. That's why it's easier to get a movie made about a man with a hangnail than a woman with a truly interesting problem...