Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dawn Steel, president of production at Paramount, recalls that Mamet's first draft was an "outline, very sparse." How sparse? Capone was hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from...
...phase of the congressional hearings on the Iran- contra scandal. But when she coolly related an extraordinary tale of typing phony official documents, shredding classified papers and hiding others in her clothes to sneak them past White House guards, her face hardened. Whenever her motives or those of her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, were challenged, she flashed both anger and fear. "Sometimes you have to go above the written law," she blurted out. Then, apparently hearing the gasps in the audience, she retreated. "Maybe that's not correct; it's not a fair thing...
...part of the team," Hall declared proudly at one point, and many members of the team were blinded to the reality of what they had done. Torn between her innocent insistence that "I was purely a typist, sir," and her determination to "protect" her boss's clandestine dealings with both Iran and the contras, Hall seemed unable to recognize wrongdoing. Even after telling the committee how she had shredded documents, Hall insisted, "I don't use the word cover-up." Her euphemism was that "I was in a protective mode...
...Hall told it, she saw her boss taking documents out of a safe and feeding them into the office shredder. She went to his aid, dropping "12, 15, 18 pages" at a time into the machine. Lieut. Colonel Robert Earl, a North aide, contributed his own secret messages. Ever helpful, she asked North whether she should destroy telephone logs and her copies of computer messages too. Yes, he said. But didn't she know what she was destroying? a committee lawyer asked. "I really didn't notice, sir," she replied frostily. "I was just purely doing...
Once out of the Old Executive Office Building, Hall twice tried to give the papers to her boss. North signaled her to walk on. Green, she said, warned, "No, wait till we get inside the car." In Green's automobile, Hall pulled out the papers and gave them to North. According to Hall, Green asked her what she would say when asked about shredding documents. "We shred every day," she replied. "Good," said Green. As it turned out, that is just what Hall did say when a White House lawyer inquired about the destruction of evidence...