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...years later. In Hollywood's case, it was many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled several hundred memoirs. "Who wants to see some dame go blind and die?" asked...
...Flying Nun was fantasy, but in Los Angeles the airborne Archbishop is for real. To enable Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony to get around his three-county, 8,700-sq.-mi. archdiocese, anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating...
...people at the top of large chains "are not at all bookpeople, as it were, but are businessmen," he said. Independent booksellers, he added, are more likely to stock the book because they have more immediate ties to the literary world...
...wiped out tens of thousands of small investors, many of whom filed criminal complaints accusing their brokers of cheating them. The arrest of Legorreta, who had been considered immune partly because of his role as a fund raiser for Salinas, has proved popular among consumers, if not businessmen. Legorreta has denied any wrongdoing. "I am innocent," he said. "I believe in doing things according...
...Seaga's heavy cuts in health and education spending had angered the poor. There was a growing consensus among Jamaicans that the recovery had benefited mainly businessmen and the wealthy. Under the party slogan of "We put people first," Manley succeeded in portraying Seaga as a callous, autocratic Prime Minister obsessed with computer figures and uninterested in his constituents...