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...good will by the male bosses who employ them. "I never look at gender or hair color or clothing," avers Steven Spielberg, who chose women to direct three of the 24 episodes for his Amazing Stories. "I look at talent." But every baby mogul knows he must be a businessman first, a booster second. Says Mark Canton, president of production at Warner Bros.: "Nobody hires a woman just because she's a woman. The stakes are too high to be an idealist...
...power behind the Kennedy name was never more apparent than in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis last week. CBS Morning News Anchor Maria Shriver, 30, daughter of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, had made it clear that she wanted her wedding to Austrian-born Actor-Businessman Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38, to be a traditional--and very private--affair. So the Shrivers and Kennedys exerted all their considerable influence to maintain tight security, stymie gossip columnists and keep journalists at a distance. Items...
What gave Icahn's offer most of its credibility, though, was his surprising success at TWA. The New York City-born businessman took the helm of the floundering carrier 14 months ago after a bitter takeover battle. Few thought Icahn would ever be able to turn around the airline, which lost $193 million in 1985 and $257 million in the first half of this year. But after a series of hard-nosed measures, including victory in a three-month strike by TWA's 6,500 flight attendants, Icahn was able to announce earnings of $72 million for the third quarter...
...training films produced by Video Arts, a London company that Cleese helped start in 1972. Over the years, Cleese has instructed bosses on everything from running meetings to conducting interviews with prospective employees. His roles have ranged from Queen Elizabeth I, who offered tips on making decisions, to a businessman named Ivan the Terrible, who was too overbearing during interviews...
...been three years since Businessman Alan Bond and his Australia II broke the 132-year U.S. hold on the America's Cup and put it in a bulletproof glass case in the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Barely a month after that defeat, the first Americans showed up in Perth, followed since by yachtsmen from five other nations, all of them plotting how to wrest the Cup from the Aussies. Last week the joust began...