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Maybe no one is the perfect person for a job that depends so much on dumb luck in guessing the public's whims. An idiot could succeed in such a position, a genius could fail, simply by picking or passing on a Star Wars or a Forrest Gump. It's also possible that Ovitz was unsuited for the position. As a talent agent, he is a seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack...
...thus this week it will fall to him to guide through the full Senate the biggest effort to deregulate the $250 billion communications industry since the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Lawmakers and lobbyists are holding their breath to see whether the man they consider the Forrest Gump of legislators is up to the task. Others aren't taking any chances. Senate majority leader Bob Dole has assigned Senator Larry Craig of Idaho to help coordinate Republican amendments on the sweeping measure, a job usually reserved for the committee chairman. Says Shirley Bloomfield, lobbyist for the National Telephone Cooperative...
...attack on purveyors of offensive pop culture, Dole took pains, at least for now, not to hit some prominent Republicans. When he cited a list of recent family films that were also sizable box-office hits, Dole included not only The Lion King and Forrest Gump but also True Lies, a movie that reduced a small army of bad guys to blood-splattered pieces. Then again, it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, a G.O.P. muscleman. Another sometime Republican, Bruce Willis, is the star of Die Hard with a Vengeance, one of the many brutal-fun action pictures that escaped Dole's wrath...
...mass of folks going to the movies and buying records are in their teens, 20s and early 30s. The optimism of Forrest Gump rang false for a lot of us. The Lion King offered moments of uplift that faded when the lights came up. But hip-hop songs such as KRS-One's Build & Destroy, Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep and Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me sound fierce and true, reflecting in mood and content the real world around me and many hundreds of thousands of fans...
...Forrest Gump. Its message is that if you are sufficiently stupid, you can wander happily unscathed through the horrors of our time-and get rich...