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...Stone's character hadn't kept an ice pick at her bedside, would the thriller have been a hit? "We've got a lot of women as bad guys," says producer Lynda Obst (The Fisher King). "It's a reflection, I think, of men's fears about women." Basic Instinct, plus The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Single White Female, made 1992 the Year of the Killer Woman -- of the vixen, nanny or best friend who uses sex as the appetizer for destruction. And 1993 could be the Year of the Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas...
Blame it on Amy Fisher. The tabloids' favorite teen temptress was the subject of three network movies in December and January. Critics hooted in derision, but the networks had the last laugh: ratings for all three ranged from good to great. Since then, the scramble to turn sensational news events into juicy TV drama has gone into overdrive. In May, along with the Waco cult story, NBC has announced plans to air a movie based on the World Trade Center bombing -- less than three months after the disaster...
...People have not forgotten about [the refugees] and they have to hang on," said Mike Fisher, a second-year Yale Law student
...industry points out that up to 30% of its $225 billion in receipts comes from deductible business meals. In the early 1980s, power lunches were 100% deductible. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 sliced that to 80%. "What's going to happen in five years?" asks Fisher, who adds facetiously, "Why not just knock it out completely and knock out the country's leading retail employer...
...FISHER'S jail cell ("I know someone who knows her lawyer...