Word: em
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, the makers of "Eraser" have themselves done a bad job of erasing: instead of assuming a new, exciting action identity, Schwarzenegger returns to standard shoot-'em-up mode, which seems staler now than in earlier films. If you want a good action movie, sure, see "Eraser"; if you want vintage Arnold, better make a visit to your video store...
...Paramount...[out] went twelve days of production on Sangaree, a costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again in 3-D...'Whaddya mean [the audience] won't wear glasses?' demanded Producer Bill Thomas. 'They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want to see!'...At Warners, Brother Jack [rushed] production on a [3-D] remake of that ancient horror about murder in a wax museum [with] the only director on the lot who cannot properly perceive depth: one-eyed Andre de Toth. [Said De Toth]: 'Beethoven couldn't hear music...
Buffett complained that these trust managers were distorting the market in his company but ultimately decided that the best way to beat 'em was to join 'em. Last week shares of a new Class B stock, quickly dubbed Baby Berkshires, went on the market for a mere $1,110 per, a fraction of the mother issue's market value. The Baby B's gained $50 to hit $1,160 the first day and finished at $1,200 on Friday. Whether they'll ever grow up to be like Mama is, well, what markets are all about...
Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...
...what commentators are diplomatically calling his temperament. Maybe, in one of the many public appearances he has made to say that the Reform Party is not about him, he said something considered favorable to those who believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. ("What you want to do is to get 'em close enough so you can look under the hood. It's as simple as that...