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...story, about predatory men from all social strata lurking in the cobwebbed corners of a modern woman's life, gets neither the zest nor the sick thrill it could use. This is an enervated, despondent entertainment -- especially if you start meditating on what's befallen Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman and director Bob Rafelson since 1970, when the trio made Five Easy Pieces and the cinema world seemed full of promise and not dead ends...
Spurring the revolt is a ruling made earlier this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission, historically sympathetic to management on such issues, that made it easier for shareholders to challenge companies on CEO compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...
...Eastman Chemical...
Since last July, more than $800 million worth of advertising work has moved from one agency to another. (The size of an account is measured by the client's annual ad spending, on which the agency earns a percentage commission.) A few days before the Avis decision, Eastman Kodak shifted the lucrative media-buying responsibility for placing some $55 million worth of its ads to the Lintas agency, a contract probably worth at least $1 million in fees. The loser: J. Walter Thompson, which has been creating Kodak's advertising for 61 years, most recently its "True Colors" campaign...
...battle is widening -- U.S. companies filed more than 5,700 intellectual- property lawsuits last year in contrast to 3,800 in 1980 -- and the stakes can be enormous. In the biggest patent-infringement case to date, Eastman Kodak was ordered last October to pay $900 million for infringing on seven Polaroid instant-photography patents. In a $100 million trademark suit, Mirage Studios, creator of the hugely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, is demanding that AT&T refrain from using such terms as turtle power and cowabunga in a 900-number telephone service for kids. In a far- reaching copyright...