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Happiness for Ana includes singing the lead in a movie of Rossini's "Cinderella," and as she attempts to find her way into the spotlight, her movie becomes a beautiful and unusual Cinderella story...
...even met Matthew McConaughey," Smith admits. "But I trust what Joel tells me." Schumacher then hosted a screening of the unfinished film for New York City's media elite. Out of that came a Vanity Fair cover. The director talked the ears off dozens of other journalists, recounting the Cinderella story of a secret screen test that won McConaughey the part...
Unto this breach rides Dick Lamm, who admits that his is as much a crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...
...Minutemen, however, quickly dashed the Cinderella dreams of the Crimson, taking an easy 13-2 victory and starting Harvard on its longest losing streak of the season...
What kind of network will Silver King become in its wildest, Cinderella-like dreams? Diller intends, he says, to build it from the bottom up with local programming--a national network of distinct and separate voices. It almost sounds like a koan: When is a network not a network? Of course, this is precisely the kind of counterintuitive thinking that has drawn Diller admirers and partners like investment banker Herbert Allen and Tele-Communications Inc.'s John Malone. In practical terms, however, Diller's plan would seem almost too counterintuitive, given the fact that Silver King stations currently produce almost...