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...promised. The 60,000 pages of documents from his early years as a hotshot Reagan Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because he had lodged a complaint against a government agency: "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody...
...founding partner in the Creative Artists Agency, Ron Meyer left to become president of Universal Studios 10 years ago, and has weathered five different regimes at the company, now owned by General Electric. At the end of a summer marked by bleak box-office results, Meyer talked with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner about the hits, the misses and the grime on movie-theater floors...
...Attendance is down 10% from last year. Theater owners and industry execs blame the drop not on this year's bombs but on last year's hits, namely Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which together made up the $500 million box-office difference. But so-so selections only remind moviegoers of the other reasons they're avoiding movie theaters these days: double-digit prices, irritating commercials and that imbecile down front with the Mariah Carey ringtone. As a result, the biggest chains are reeling. Market leader Regal Entertainment Group's stock...
...expanding its upscale Cinema de Lux brand of theaters, which sells 35% more tickets per theater than its sibling brands. At Pacific Theatre Co.'s swinging ArcLight Cinemas in Los Angeles, attendance has swelled 25% over the past two years. Says Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co., a box- office--tracking firm in Encino, Calif.: "It's counterintuitive--if attendance is down, why would you invest more in a theater?--but this template is one that is working...
Warren will not quote a budget for the effort, stressing its volunteer nature. But he talks of sending each Rwandan church kits he calls "school in a box," "clinic in a box," "business in a box" and so on. (The "clinic," he says, might include medicines for malaria and eventually AIDS, with guides for their administration.) He has tapped Saddleback congregants to talk with the heads of specific Rwandan sectors. Sam Smith, a retired U.S. federal administrative judge just returned from Kigali, says he hopes to send U.S. police, prosecutors and judges to advise their African counterparts in areas like...