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...showdown had all the breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...
...Cannes Film Festival, Minimogul Menahem Golan sat down with Jean- Luc Godard and, on a table napkin, jotted down a movie contract. Cinema's old enfant terrible (Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary) would write and direct a modern King Lear. Norman Mailer would play the mad monarch, Woody Allen the fool...
...chagrin, his relationship with his flashy wife has become a staple of London's racy tabloids. Brightman has been vilified as a "home wrecker" who came between Lloyd Webber and his first wife (referred to as Sarah I, while Brightman is Sarah II). Last year there were so many breathless "exclusives" about shouting matches between husband and wife and an affair that Brightman was allegedly having with an old boyfriend that Lloyd Webber slapped libel suits on several of the more gossipy tabloids. The papers settled or retracted, and Lloyd Webber sent the money to various charities...
...five Israeli soldiers from the Nahal unit quickly slip down a narrow alley. Four Palestinian youths peek briefly from between two houses. Seconds later, a hailstorm of stones and metal pieces pelts the patrol. Hugging the walls, the unit breaks apart. When it reassembles, Dror, 20, is breathless. Three masked men had hit him with rocks. "The bastards knew very well I couldn't do anything to them," he mutters to TIME's Ron Ben-Yishai. "They know our orders. They knew I would not shoot...
...Crimson's breathless conclusion that these depositions "may prove to be significant new evidence in the case" is therefore wrong, and creates the erroneous impression that the depositions are news. In fact, the Crimson is eight months late in reporting these events--a fact that the story omits...