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...just as determined to hold on to his people. Terms of Endearment -- his first film as writer-director, which in 1984 earned him three Oscars, including one for Best Picture -- begins with the birth of the Debra Winger character and ends after her death. Broadcast News, his delicately furious 1987 comedy about network infotainment, opens when the star newsfolk are kids and ends seven years after the climax. His ultimate film would be the life story of everyone on this planet -- painful emotional reality, but with great jokes. As a writer and a guy, he can imagine nothing worse than...
Dramatic it was, beyond doubt. But a coup? Even as Redstone and Huizenga ( were basking in the glow of their new partnership, Wall Street was scratching its head in amazement at both the merger and the apparent meagerness of the new offer. After two weeks of furious negotiations and consultations with a team of investment bankers from Morgan Stanley, Redstone had produced a bid that was considered by many analysts to be not only anticlimactic but also inferior to Diller's current offer. Though the offer is a complex blend of stock and cash, the estimated value of the Viacom...
...example, in Arkansas the law firm of your enemy might just be your law firm. In early 1986, one of the largest savings and loans in Arkansas, Madison Guaranty, was sliding toward insolvency. Its chief lending officer, Harry Don Denton, was furious that a local S&L had sold Madison millions of dollars in bad loans. He wanted the deal undone and at the suggestion of his boss, Madison chairman (and Whitewater partner) McDougal, he turned for help to one of the state's top lawyers, Hillary Rodham Clinton. After meeting with her for several hours, Denton helped her carry...
...December, Brandeis University students were up in arms, furious at the school's student newspaper. The source of their rage? An advertisement from a Holocaust revisionist that the paper had published days earlier. The ad was titled "A Revisionist's View of the Holocaust Memorial Museum," and it questioned the existence of the gas chambers in World War II concentration camps...
Melissa hit the floor running. As she approached the elevator she happened to glance toward the chapel, where she glimpsed Chris sitting with a man she had never seen before. Frightened and furious, she burst through the door, firing off questions. "Where have you been? Are you okay...