Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting in his office in Los Angeles, Nash, 51, and his three producers, including his daughter Robyn, 30, view extraordinarily violent and vulgar tapes. (Against all odds, shockumentaries can bring families together.) In one particularly gripping tape, a Brazilian crowd flees a fireworks display gone haywire. "That's amazing," Nash says. "Do we know if anyone got hurt?" NBC, like Fox, the network Nash usually works with, is squeamish about showing major injuries. The Brazilian scene is accepted, not only because it passes the no-maiming criterion but also because it--as Nash explains it--"tells a story." A tape...
...Continental Airlines, which leases jets to such celebrities as Michael Jackson and Madonna. In the early '90s, when New Kids rented one of his planes, Pearlman was surprised that a kiddie pop group could afford it. When his cousin Art Garfunkel explained that an act like New Kids could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, the seeds of Trans Continental Entertainment were planted...
LISTEN UP Chief Justice William Rehnquist may want to bring the libretto next time he goes to a Gilbert and Sullivan show. He has said that he put four gold stripes on his robe in imitation of a costume he saw on the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe. Bad choice. The Lord Chancellor describes his duties this...
MICHAEL LUTIN, Vanity Fair: Too small to be a planet? Nonsense. Planet or iceball, Pluto has the power to bring about life-changing transformations. It can turn jerks into geniuses, so there's still hope for the scientists...
...STARR'S righthand man may be ready to bolt. JACKIE BENNETT, Starr's top deputy, has interviewed with at least one Washington law firm with strong Republican credentials, promising to bring paying clients with him. Bennett's aggressive prosecutorial style has made him one of the most controversial figures in Starr's office and the one most despised by the White House. A veteran of the Justice Department's public-integrity section, Bennett has been under wraps ever since the federal judge overseeing Starr's grand jury called for an investigation of leaks from the independent counsel's shop; Bennett...