Word: freds
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More glitz is on the way. MGM Grand, whose largest stockholder is flamboyant financier Kirk Kerkorian, plans to open a $700 million, 5,000-room hotel and movie-studio theme park in 1992. Attractions at the park will include demonstrations of how films are made. Says Fred Benninger, chairman of MGM Grand: "I think the trend of bare-breasted chorus girls and all that has become passe. People are no longer interested...
...Fred Sohn, owner of Sun Studs, sees no difference between the reforested . stands and the ancient forest they replace. "I believe I as an individual can replicate the forest, redo it like a farmer growing a crop and do it better than nature," he says. "I can remake the old forest the same way nature did, only quicker." Talk like that riles environmentalists, who see the forest as more than just another fungible asset. Steve Erickson, whose father was in the timber industry and whose brother works in a mill, is writing a book about hiking trails. But Erickson finds...
Here's another '60s cartoon planned as a live-action film. Producers are hoping to cast Roseanne's John Goodman as Fred and British comedian Tracey Ullman as his long-suffering wife Wilma...
Spurred by studies which showed an alarming lack of diversity among the houses, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 brought back the previous year's proposal introducing a more random element into house selection...
...programs for physicians interested in emergency care as a specialty. The goal was not entirely altruistic: the hope was that most accident victims would be middle class and well insured. "A lot of hospitals looked to trauma victims as $250,000 pieces of meat, and everyone wanted them," says Fred Hurtado, president of the United Paramedics of Los Angeles...