Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr's vision of Winchell's fate is a fitting postlude, balancing irony and sympathy. He knows that, for Winchell, true hell is closing out of town...
Most of all, what is ABC going to do with TV's most talked about new show of the season? Will sagging ratings finally bury Laura Palmer? And whatever the immediate fate of David Lynch's eerie soap opera, will TV ever be the same again...
...pool while he was taking pictures for a story on the Indian middle class. Incensed that his wife had been snapped in her swimsuit, the man attacked Nickelsberg, twisting the camera straps around the photographer's neck. For 45 minutes, Nickelsberg and the assailant wrangled over the film's fate. Finally, after the man threatened to commit acts more terrible than any Nickelsberg had seen in places like the war zones of Afghanistan, our photographer agreed to give up nine rolls of exposed film. The man said the rolls would be taken to Paris and processed to remove only...
Surprisingly, Hollywood can usually judge a film's long-term fate by its , performance on its first weekend in the theaters. On Saturday mornings Hollywood's phone lines buzz with the sound of moguls offering congratulations or condolences based on industry polls of Friday-night receipts. With so much money at stake, this summer's calls could be highly emotional. "There are a number of films that can do $100 million or more," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney Studios. "But you can't look for another Batman; that's a fool's mission. There will be triples and home...
Montparnasse was quite dead after World War II, but it enjoyed a modest revival in the '70s and '80s, when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able...