Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notes Blasi. "You lose them even if you win them." Already the reputations of the FBI and the press are suffering, and Jewell has been able to turn the media megaphone around to declare his innocence. You almost wish he'd quit now. Sign a lucrative book or movie deal and call it even. But it's only in films that adversity makes the ordinary man noble and merciful. In real life, he sues...
GEORGE CLOONEY, tired of being haunted by paparazzi's videocams, tried playground tactics: when a bully picks on you, stop dating his sister. Clooney struck a deal with Paramount Pictures--in writing--that Hard Copy would no longer cover him, or he'd boycott Paramount's other, puffier show, Entertainment Tonight. The deal lasted six months. Then Hard Copy did a story on Clooney's girlfriend Celine Balidran. The actor quickly imposed a ban on ET and spoke about it publicly, even berating Paramount executive Frank Kelly for making the deal at all. "A so-called news format show will...
...beginning of the year, ROSIE O'DONNELL was a stand-up comic best known as a Madonna pal who had been in a few movies and K Mart commercials. Now she has a nice talk show, a nice book deal worth a reputed $3 million, a nice son Parker, and most of the readers of Seventeen thinking she'd be a nice President. Who better for Annie Leibovitz and the folks at Vanity Fair to turn into Glinda the good witch? It's not even her first time in the role. "When I was in the first grade I wanted...
Back in 1960, though, Kennedy and Nixon were scorned as the plastic products of professional packaging, exemplars of what one journalist labeled "the Smooth Deal," so much alike that Democratic partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. rushed into print a pamphlet titled Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference...
Working off an old (1955) film of the same title, writers Richard Price and Alexander Ignon have imagined this tough artisan of the deal (he built a major airline from scratch) confronting an equally smart and ruthless kidnapper (Gary Sinise) and his dangerously fractious gang. At stake: the life of Tom's cruelly abducted son. The ransom: $2 million. Tom's wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up. In 7 out of 10 cases, the G-man tells Tom, this leads...