Word: honcho
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...Sylvester Stallone for a share of screenplay credit. Several years later he butted heads with studio executives over the ending of the courtroom drama Jagged Edge. His greatest confrontation came in 1989, when he decided to leave the Creative Artists Agency for rival ICM and, according to Eszterhas, CAA honcho Michael Ovitz threatened to have his "foot soldiers who go up and down Wilshire Boulevard each day . . . blow your brains...
...other figures portrayed in the film come off at least as badly as they do in real life. Peter Riegert is right on target as the cocky Shearson honcho Peter Cohen. The basset-mugged Fred Dalton Thompson, though a bit jowly for the part, is convincing as the charming but ineffectual Robinson, who last month was shown the door of troubled American Express...
...political junkie; IOP honcho...
...others, face thousands of lawsuits by investors and government regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Accountants' financial liability in S&L cases could exceed $9 billion, not counting compensatory damages. Last week Ernst & Young agreed to pay $63 million to settle claims that its negligence helped S&L honcho Charles Keating Jr. defraud some 23,000 investors in Lincoln Savings & Loan. The settlement came two weeks after the largest U.S. accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, paid $22 million for fraud claims arising from the same S&L collapse...
...Darman and domestic policy chief Roger Porter. Longtime Bush confidants are miffed at Sununu's recent practice of cutting them off at the pass and having a junior aide return their calls, dictate marching orders to them, and even respond to their letters to Bush. So how is a honcho to convey his thoughts to the President? Last month Bush himself opened up a new back channel, giving his top political advisers a private post-office box number through which they could contact him directly...