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...fierce that the future of American manufacturing industries is at stake," says Lawrence Bankowski, the Ohio-based president of the American Flint Glass Workers Union, which has lost nearly half its 36,000 members during the past 15 years. Concurs Mike Rohret, a human-resources manager at a Fisher Controls plant in Iowa that is testing a variable-pay plan: "If we didn't manufacture here, we would have manufactured in Singapore...
...Actors Guild, only 29.1% of all feature-film roles in 1989 went to women. The average male SAG member earned 60% more than the average female; of actors in their 50s, men earned 150% more. "It looks to me as though females get hired along procreative lines," says Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars) and writer (Postcards from the Edge). "After 40, we're kind of cooked...
...pays to see them. In her one blockbuster of the '80s, Out of Africa, Streep took second billing to Robert Redford. And if industry solons grumble when an Eddie Murphy movie makes only $60 million (Harlem Nights) or $80 million (Another 48 HRS), should they cheer when the Streep- Fisher Postcards hits $40 million...
...Sleeping with the Enemy. Her combination of girl-next-door beauty, canny vulnerability and great good fortune in roles quickly begat hit movies (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman), which beget a first look at the hottest scripts. Which means that every other young actress gets sloppy seconds. Says Carrie Fisher: "I wouldn't want to look over my shoulder at Julia Roberts." But some of Roberts' peers don't. They look harder for parts, look deeper into their talent, look hopefully to an industry that will find room for them...
...quick fade-out on that happy ending; women in movies have so few. What they and Hollywood need is to start at Reel 1 with a happy beginning. Meryl Streep can star. Carrie Fisher will write the script. And Jodie Foster, a child of the movies who has always known the direction she and her films should take, will shout, "Action!" And never mind...