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Although Dr. Thomas Royer, chief medical officer of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, doesn't normally handle admissions, he made an exception when a call came in from Dr. Connie Mariano, who is Bill Clinton's personal physician. It wasn't the President who needed treatment but someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away...
...lack of medical insurance didn't seem very important after he arrived last week, making Henry Ford the focal point of a major international news story. While a hospital spokeswoman kept the crowds of reporters at bay, doctors gave the 47-year-old exile a thorough going-over. He was suffering from high blood pressure, and he needed glasses, but otherwise he was remarkably healthy for someone incarcerated so long in a country not noted for humane treatment of prisoners...
That may have been Damon's last lick of anonymity before he headed into the red-hot center of American celebrity, going from being a guy to being the Guy. Damon has begun a run of major Hollywood star turns, starting with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker, following with the December release of Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (from a script Damon co-wrote) and continuing next June with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan...
...position as they've ever been," observes Coppola, who chose Damon over fellow finalist Edward Norton for the lead in the new John Grisham star vehicle. "They've become the trademarks of the movies, not the directors. There's barely a movie that can be made without Cage or Ford or Pitt. Now they determine what movies get made." As for Damon's qualifications for joining the short list, Coppola says, "Matt has got the gift--and he's a writer in his own right. That gives him something special." That plus the fact that Damon's salary remains...
...Rainmaker, cleverly adapted by Francis Ford Coppola from a John Grisham novel, is honest, commercial fun, and Good Will Hunting, which is written by Damon and his co-star (and old buddy) Ben Affleck, is finally dishonest, but in ways that will delude the impressionable into thinking it's saying something important...