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Producer Richard Donner's Free Willy saved him. The 1993 Warner Bros. movie was a hit and was followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with...
...wasn't planned to look this way. When Susan and Bill Wigert bought the acre of property in 1975, they were looking for a modest vacation cabin. But as builders added rooms and bits of local history--beams from a San Francisco pier, hearthstones from Donner Pass--the place grew with an eccentric life of its own. Since 1982, when the Wigerts converted it to a bed-and-breakfast, the inn has developed something of a cult following...
...mainland to star in a score of Hong Kong hits during the colony's Golden Age of action cinema, is 36. And Hollywood is paying as much attention to him as the U.S. Secret Service did when he was a kid. "He's delightful and disciplined," says Richard Donner, who directed Li in his Hollywood film debut, the 1998 Lethal Weapon 4. "I knew I was getting a genius in martial arts, but I also got a really sensational young actor...
...Girls' Show" (Christa Donner, Alida Walsh and others...
...having trouble making deals, because he had not sold the movie rights for MICHAEL CRICHTON'S new novel, Timeline, due out next month. Ovitz put such talk to rest last week when Paramount signed on for the film. It will be directed by a big name to boot: RICHARD DONNER (Lethal Weapons 1, 2, 3 and 4). Folks at Paramount weren't talking, but the film, which is said to be a Jurassic Park-esque tale of time travel and technological marvels, is slated for release in summer...