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...Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with a few dismally unoriginal mob scenes...
This time around, all the performers are demanding stiff fees. Wary of the huge financial commitment that was being asked for, Decca hesitated to commit itself, and the Warner Music Group jumped in. The new deal is estimated at nearly $1 million for each artist. That's the way to sing for your supper...
...Simpson was at home waiting for a limousine that would take him to the airport for his 11:45 p.m. flight to Chicago. Nicole Simpson's father says the conversation took place closer to 10 p.m. If this is true, the prosecution could argue that Simpson had time to commit the killings shortly afterward, and still return home in plenty of time for his ride to the airport...
...Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games, a CBS staple since 1956, and allowed Fox to pick them up. CBS also looked inept when, unlike abc, nbc and Fox, it did not demand that cable systems commit to accept some jerry-built CBS cable channel in return for retransmission rights to the network's programming. "CBS could have gotten a cable channel for almost nothing," says the TV-industry executive. "They would just have to have invested some start-up money. But to Tisch it didn...
Although calls for help from battered wives sharply increased last week, domestic violence remains not really a crime -- especially among the men who commit it or sympathize with those who do. The word domestic modifies and diminishes the word that follows so much that it is not considered true violence. Beating up a stranger gets you jailed; beating up a wife lands you in therapy...