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...sensationalism, which is not the same thing as being sensational. Jessica Traynor (Sean Young), the top program executive for Tycom Entertainment, a pay-per-view operation "somewhere in a 500-channel television universe," is searching for a blockbuster programming event. "We're in trouble, Jess," says her boss (Len Cariou). "Movies don't work; screen's still too small. Sports is dying. The sex boom is over. Where the hell are we going...
When Boris Yeltsin's 63rd birthday rolled around last Tuesday, a reporter was unable to resist asking Victor Chernomyrdin whether he had sprung any special surprises on his boss. "We presented him with a huge bouquet of flowers," Chernomyrdin solemnly intoned. "We doubt if he received a bigger one from anyone else. We knew we couldn't allow this. Ours was the best...
...Days, a gay coming-of-age story from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday); and, with Oliver Stone and HBO, an adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On). "Nothing takes the taboo off of anything in Hollywood like box office," says Propaganda's boss Steve Golin. "These guys'll make anything they think will make money...
...Duffy spoke with 70 White House officials for the story, but he still believes that he has only glimpsed the inner workings of this President's mind. At least he isn't alone: many members of the White House staff Duffy interviewed were equally mystified by their boss's approach to running the country. "When we want to torture people, we make them draw a flow chart of how decisions are made," joked a senior official. Says Duffy: "In the Bush White House, if I could get to any of three key people, I knew what was going...
Ooooh--a Georgian (that would be me), a mild-mannered Bronx native (Dave Griffel) and a Kansan (our boss, Sean Wissman) take over production of the Crimson sports section today, a quality trifecta of the good, the bad and the ugly...