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When aspiring movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti visited the White House Oval Office two weeks ago, he boasted to President Bush that he would soon complete the cliff-hanging takeover of MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3 billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian...
...proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes as that magazine's heyday -- not a universal judgment among Esquire connoisseurs. The Kaplan regime takes effect with the December-January issue...
...ecstatic critics were priming TV viewers to expect the unexpected. Lynch's two-hour pilot didn't disappoint. It was frantic and lugubrious in turn, a soap opera with strychnine. In one night, the show had hip America hooked. Twin Peaks stoked a media frenzy unseen since the Dallas heyday. But this time the director, not the star, was the prime beneficiary. David Lynch...
...Hollywood's heyday," said Vice President Jason Tomarken...
Reagan Administration conservatives argued that any move against Doe might lead him to seize the American installations. And this was the heyday of Jeane Kirkpatrick's theory that traditional dictatorships of the Third World were more amenable to democratization than totalitarian regimes of the left. Washington endorsed Doe's election. "To withdraw support for Liberia's economic development," explained Chester Crocker, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "would sacrifice the tentative steps taken toward representative government...