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That's a lot of glitz for a man universally described as low key, soft-spoken and unfailingly polite. But in a crunch he can be ruthless in taking a company apart. The company he is aiming at now is the one Iacocca spent the best years of his life preserving. "I've got 47 years of good reputation at stake," says Iacocca. "I don't want to be tainted as somebody who went in there for a quick buck." Even so, the quick bucks are a good bet. It's all the rest that...
Current projects besides the film include candid-camera calls for MTV and the production of an upcoming all-calls video. With all this glitz, the Jerky Boys haven't made an old-style business call in about eight months, honey pants...
...Washington plays the naked power game, if Los Angeles spices power ploys with glitz, New York City energizes itself with a workout borrowed from academia: the intellectual war game, clarifying issues by talking them to death. The current fracas is the biggest since the obscenity debate over Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. It pits one of the country's most brilliant and respected critics against one of its most daring and respected choreographers. Arlene Croce is the New Yorker's dance reviewer; no American arts critic is more admired-or more feared. Bill T. Jones is a modern-dance choreographer; handsome...
...Kelley, Bob Woodward, Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly paid $7 million for his memoirs. For class, Simon & Schuster plucked Philip Roth away from his prestige publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Although only about 10% of Simon & Schuster's revenues come from trade publishing, that is where the glitz lies. Says top literary agent Morton Janklow: "Trade publishing is like couture in fashion. Saint Laurent loses money on couture, but that's what allows him to make millions from his perfumes." With Snyder in charge, Simon & Schuster became the flashiest couture house of them...
...chaos of fashion today. What is happening in our business has nothing to do with making people look attractive, elegant or even interesting. On the contrary, the uglier you make the clothes, the louder the noise. Today's "grab bag" fashion prophets, who are more concerned with media glitz than with the craft of dressing their public, are responsible for the nihilistic corner to which they have been relegated by their disenchanted clientele...