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...people to safety from the bowels of the towers. "They were on it real quick," says Fred Ferby, the mechanic. "She had everything together. She gave me something in my hand I could have a lawyer look at." Within three days, NBC executives gave Wilshire Court the go-ahead, and the | race...
...soften environmental regulations, and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan. Reilly and Lujan have clashed as members of the so-called God Squad, a committee of officials with the power to grant exceptions to the Endangered Species Act. Last month, over Reilly's protests, a committee majority gave loggers the go-ahead to cut down 688 hectares (1,700 acres) of ancient forest in the Pacific Northwest that is home to the threatened northern spotted...
...about black people, and most of them had been done by people who weren't African American," he says. "I wasn't going to let some fool from Idaho or Encino direct a movie about living in my neighborhood. If they didn't want to do the movie with me directing, they didn't want to do the movie." Impressed by the young man's moxie, Frank Price, then head of the studio, gave him the go-ahead. Says Price: "The last time I saw someone with that kind of confidence, it was Steve Spielberg when he was about that...
When he heard that Jewison had the go-ahead for the project, Lee waged a protest campaign, arguing in the press that only a black director could do the right thing with Malcolm's story and pestering Worth with countless phone calls, insisting, "I'm the guy, I'm the guy." Worth finally relented, and Jewison bowed out. Warner Bros. agreed to finance the Baldwin script, as rewritten and directed by Lee, starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington. "I think they felt it would be more of an event with Spike," Worth says...
...only communist dictator still in power outside Asia, Fidel Castro is showing signs of desperation. Last week, ignoring all pleas for mercy from around the globe, he gave the go-ahead to the execution of a Cuban exile and stepped up his campaign against disaffected citizens...