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These days, as notorious gentlemen from Rob Lowe to Clarence Thomas have proved, every scandal is a career move. Indiscretions that movie stars once paid to suppress they now discuss on Oprah and Arsenio; those modern-day analysts' couches have become celebrities' thrones. Allen the filmmaker can use this publicity; his recent movies have been flops. (An industry axiom: everybody knows Woody Allen, but nobody goes to his movies.) It is even likely that the brouhaha will boost Husbands and Wives at the box office, at least until people decide whether they like it or not. For Farrow the actress...
...platform in 1990 was 'tough on taxes, tough on crime.' Ladies and Gentlemen, Republican are both and the Democrats are neither," he said. "The Democrats' taxiing and spending habits remind me of that old definition of a baby: a huge appetite on the end, and no sense of responsibility on the other...
...took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...
...MILITARY: Officers, Not Gentlemen...
...hasn't lost his potential. "There are only a few others -- Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin -- in Eddie's league as a brilliant comic talent," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Disney sachem who worked with the young Eddie at Paramount and is shepherding Murphy's next film, Distinguished Gentlemen, at Disney. "Just as important, he's realigned his management team and has a great relationship with Brandon Tartikoff at Paramount. He's an ambitious, nailed-down, determined actor who has a big agenda of things he wants to get done...