Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars have got raises since the show took off, but with Warner looking at staggering profits, the cast wants more. The studio has reportedly sold the show into syndication for an astronomical $4 million an episode; the deal hinges on the Friends staying for at least two more seasons to generate enough episodes for reruns. With Warner's big payoff on the line, the stars have a lot of leverage--although given the panoply of agents, lawyers and managers involved, the six will defy industry odds if they stick together...
...proposition with which young Jennifer Belle cannot argue. The 28-year-old Manhattanite has received a great deal of publicity for her comic first novel, Going Down (Riverhead Books; $12; 254 pages), primarily because of its subject: a year in the life of a young woman who becomes a prostitute to pay her tuition at New York University. Right away we know we are in for humor of the zanily incongruous sort because Belle has given her heroine a some-of-my-best-friends-went-to-Exeter name: Bennington Bloom...
...Mimi Swartz, a National Magazine Award winner who had the temerity to write a profile in Texas Monthly of freshman Congressman Steve Stockman, a former house painter who personifies the desire of voters to throw out incumbents in favor of the inexperienced and the uninformed. Offering a great deal of evidence, she described him as a militia-loving, ethically challenged "class clown." In response, the Congressman's top aide, Cory Birenbaum, shot off a letter to Swartz at home, which Texas Monthly released after the Hill, a Washington newspaper, got a copy. The letter called Swartz "a sad and pathetic...
...organization was "trying to set me up." At that point, General Colin Powell, whom Dole is urging to take a bigger role in his campaign, could no longer ignore the incident and said, "It would have been useful for him to present his views." Dole called it "no big deal" and then added that he would be speaking instead to audiences "I think I can relate...
...Tansu Ciller is especially curious. Last week Erbakan became the head of the first Islamist-majority coalition government in Turkey since Kemal Ataturk declared it a secular state in 1923. In two years' time, Erbakan is due to hand over power to Ciller and her True Path Party. The deal was ratified during a parliamentary vote of confidence that provoked the wildest scenes the National Assembly has seen in many years...