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What accounts for the star stampede? The obvious answer is just such box- office magic. Impresarios often conclude, as did Roger Berlind of Death and the Maiden and Richard Seader of Shimada, that a new script by an unknown author absolutely requires star clout. Says Berlind: "The average straight play costs more than $1 million to produce. Doing one on Broadway without the protection of name recognizability is almost a lost business." Seader is even blunter: "We were originally considering off-Broadway. I don't think we would have done Shimada on Broadway without stars...
...attention Brown now receives is commensurate with his political clout after respectful showings in the season's early primaries...
...excuses." With Fox TV in its third profitable year, Diller could leave with a keen sense of accomplishment. "I was there when Fox was a minute-and-a-half from going under," says producer James Brooks, who brought the network respect with The Tracey Ullman Show and then killer clout with The Simpsons. "But Barry brought it off. It wasn't an act, it wasn't manipulation. It was sheer force of will...
Managed Care. This approach is designed to maximize the clout of consumers by encouraging them to organize into groups to negotiate with health providers and insurers. Employers, providers of group insurance, and agencies representing the poor and unemployed would aggressively lobby for lower-cost coverage. The downside: plan members would have a limited choice of doctors and face restrictions on the use of specialists...
...formal result of the meeting was a bland resolution urging expansion of United Nations peacekeeping efforts. But the mere fact that the first ever summit meeting of the Security Council convened testified to the U.N.'s growing clout. Of the 15 members, 13 sent heads of government; two grabbed the spotlight. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was trying to shed his image as a hard-drinking oaf. Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng was trying to shed his pariah status as the Butcher of Beijing...