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...event does have its inspiring moments. Steve Dunleavy, the Outback Geraldo Rivera, who cut his journalistic teeth at Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...
...Dede says I don't have a dad," Fred notes in the film's narration. "She says I'm the Immaculate Conception. That's a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.") They are a sublime mismatch of the sort usually found only in marriages. Fred balances Mom's checkbook and, as a Mother's Day gift, writes her an opera. Dede brags, like a tough schoolkid, about how she aced out some fastidious jerk in her basement laundry. For her, chain letters are literature. The boy, a nonstop reader, also dotes on Van Gogh's flower studies. Sometimes, Fred...
...message from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which began accepting checks for $1 million investments in U.S. firms Tuesday in return for visas for up to 10,000 wealthy foreigners. Come to the Land of Opportunity, the INS seems to be saying--but only with checkbook in hand...
...Peters' way with a checkbook is no less legendary in Hollywood than are his films (Batman, Rain Man). Two years ago, when Columbia's new owner, Sony, hired Peters and partner Peter Guber to head the studio, the pair's deliriously lucrative deal ($200 million for their production company alone) set a Hollywood record. Soon the partners were spending money as fast as the Treasury could print it: $40 million for Warren Beatty's Bugsy, $50 million for Steven Spielberg's Hook. Peters, 44, also became known for such extravagances as spending $80,000 on a colleague's surprise party...
Spouses also face adjustments. During the war, husbands and wives assumed new housekeeping and child-rearing responsibilities, from monitoring the checkbook to tucking the children in at night. They will expect appreciation and may be reluctant to relinquish their new power. Says Kathleen Weihl, 27, whose husband Gary will soon return to Georgia's Fort Stewart: "The guys are going to see that wives can get along without them, and it's going to be a rude awakening for some of them." Weihl, who endured a 14-month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea...