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That may make a dramatic plotline for such hit movies as Erin Brockovich and The Insider, but it is not how the civics textbooks say our government is supposed to work, and it's already a hot issue in the presidential campaign. George W. Bush, whose campaign and Republican Party are financed in large part by the executives who are often defendants in personal-injury lawsuits, promises to be "a President who is tough enough to take on the trial bar." Al Gore and the Democratic Party, who collect big contributions from trial lawyers, supported President Clinton's veto...
...been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green-light Erin Brockovich Deux or make Enrique Iglesias available in MPtrois format...
Operationally, Messier will have his hands full. Universal lost $206 million in the past fiscal year. Erin Brockovich's boffo box office (expected U.S. gross: $125 million) could help, particularly if Julia Roberts wins an Oscar for Best Actress. But studio chief Ron Meyer will doubtless be sent packing by Vivendi, which reportedly plans to replace him with Pierre Lescure, chairman and CEO of Canal Plus. Messier must also decide what to do with Seagram's 45% stake in Barry Diller's USA Network, which has cable channels and film- and TV-production facilities. Diller has feuded with Bronfman since...
Seldom do women get as lucky as Erin Brockovich, the movie law clerk played by Julia Roberts who used low-cut tops to distract important men into giving her confidential records. It's rare that women can reap the benefits of men's objectification of them without suffering some of the drawbacks too. Ms. Brockovich took a lot of risks, and for her, it paid off. But for most women, the eternal paradox of feminism kicks in: In order to be safe from the aggression and oppression of men, we need to lose our femininity and become like them, thus...
JULIA ROBERTS You're soooo Erin Brockovich. Wins scrappy legal battle to get her dotcom domain name...