Word: drew
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...Brien gratefully hosted guests John Goodman, Drew Barrymore and Tony Randall, thanking each profusely for agreeing to appear on the show of an unknown entity in a business where name means everything...
Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro will oust Humberto Ortega, the Sandinista army chief. The announcement drew a denunciation from Daniel Ortega, Humberto's brother, who was President of the Sandinista government that ran Nicaragua for more than a decade. "You are not the owner of Nicaragua," he told his successor. But Chamorro's action could help unfreeze $94 million...
...right to enjoy himself for a spell. For the past two years, Letterman has been the most wrangled-over, gossiped-about, sought-after star in television. When Jay Leno was chosen to succeed Johnny Carson as host of the Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming due after 11 years as custodian of the post-Carson time period, he was besieged with offers. In January, when he announced he was jumping to CBS for a reported $14 million a year, Letterman reached the superstar...
...station. While Steinmetz and his R.A.F. companions sat talking in the station / restaurant, 54 officers deployed around the building to close in as the three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from the station platform onto track 4. A medical team tried to treat his wounds as Grams lay sprawled across the ties, but he died on the spot...
...equally compelling relationship exists between the characters themselves. Gerrard's obsessive desire to bring in Kimble is epitomized in one confrontational scene staged over a rushing waterfall. Upon Kimble's protest that he was innocent, Gerard replies, "I don't care." When I saw this movie, I instantly drew analogies to Jean Valfean and Javert from the musical "Les Miserables"--except without the singing...