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...made 29 films, including Oscar winners Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986 English producer David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures, vowing to make better films more cheaply and with less reliance on big-name stars. Following that formula, Puttnam put the Columbia name on such films as The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987. But in his pursuit of reform, Puttnam alienated much of the Hollywood establishment. A year after he was hired, Puttnam left Columbia. Now home in Wiltshire, he is independently producing a series of movies. Bruised...
...books, constituting a series called The Larger Agenda, will be business- oriented analyses of 100 or so pages, written by such authors as David Halberstam, John Kenneth Galbraith and George Gilder for fees of about $60,000. Each book will be initially distributed free to some 150,000 opinion leaders, including executives and politicians, and later sold in bookstores. The advertising income will finance the giveaways and help keep the retail price of the books relatively low, while still ensuring a healthy profit margin for Whittle, which is 50% owned by the Time Inc. Magazine Co., the publisher of TIME...
GUTS AND GLORY: THE RISE AND FALL OF OLIVER NORTH (CBS, April 30, May 2, 9 p.m. EDT). Following his real-life trial, the embattled lieutenant colonel (David Keith) gets his day in TV court, courtesy of a two-part docudrama...
...People's Republic, it has been intensified by the growing Chinese presence on campuses, in business and the arts. When Kingston published her first account, The Woman Warrior (1976), she was a soloist. Today she is part of a choir of writers concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution is the subject of a forthcoming autobiographical novel, A Generation Lost...
...beguiling it is to blame what might be called "Lone Star ethics" -- the symbiotic relationship between the freewheeling Texas business establishment and the state's political leadership that has created an environment where only suckers remain squeaky clean. As Washington Post columnist David Broder put it, "The Texas system has ruined more brilliant political figures than larger states such as California and New York have been capable of producing in the postwar period...