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...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...
Each day, according to prosecutors, cash was emptied from the registers into a "money room," where it was counted, placed in bags and dropped down a chute into the "vault room." Most of the unreported loot was lugged to the Caribbean, where Leonard owns a second home. Another executive, Leonard's brother-in-law, kept $484,000 stashed behind a false panel in his basement. Meanwhile, the computer program itself was hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the 1982 Business Directory of New England...
...ANGELES -- Celebrity profiles regularly read like glorified press releases, but Vanity Fair may have taken the concept a bit too far. The magazine's August issue contains a brief but gushing piece on director John Woo written by David Chute. Chute just happens to have been the unit publicist for Woo's forthcoming action film, Hard Target. In his story Chute quotes people who compare Woo to Sergio Leone, Michelangelo and Martin Scorsese. Although Woo is considered by many critics to be a talented filmmaker, the author's link to the movie isn't brought up in the piece. Chute...
...really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
...front page may find it tougher going. Former Nixon appointee Ron Walker, managing director of the executive-search firm Korn/Ferry in Washington, says his office is getting "tons of calls. People want to be prepared," he says. "No one wants to be the last one out of the chute." Think tanks are hanging out NO VACANCY signs. "We just laid off five people," says Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute. Although Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp is said to be guaranteed a job with the conservative Heritage Foundation, it claims there is no more room...