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...Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of summer," and that's fine with Katzenberg, who describes his mostly low-budget summer slate as "the anti- 800-lb.-gorilla school of film-making." Disney's only expensive movie is, of course, a sequel: Honey, I Blew...
...serious candidate of its own. A State Department official insisted that "that would be the kiss of death," and an American diplomat at the U.N. agreed it would be impolitic for the U.S. to use its big-power muscle: "We weren't going to be the 900-lb. gorilla...
...globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
...GORILLA. Timmy, a 497-lb. silverback gorilla from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, left his mate Katie last week for a fling at the Bronx Zoo with four breeding beauties. Animal-rights activists fought the temporary move, but to no avail. They argued that Timmy is being used as a stud pony and not being treated as a "sensitive male." Katie, who is infertile, will be entertained by Oscar, a silverback from the Topeka Zoo, until Timmy returns...
...director of Central Intelligence is nominally in charge of all U.S. intelligence-gathering operations, but the Secretary of Defense is de facto boss of defense agency intelligence. He's "the 900-lb. gorilla in intelligence," argues Richard Helms, who was CIA chief under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. There are calls for the creation of an intelligence czar with unassailable authority. Failing that, critics are insisting that the warring agencies work out clearer terms of cooperation that the next CIA chief can unequivocally enforce...