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...hold more than 60% of CBS stock. Nonetheless, the drawling Southerner remains largely an outsider. When he went shopping for an investment banker for the CBS deal, he was reportedly turned down first by Drexel Burnham Lambert and then by Shearson Lehman. Finally he reached a deal with E.F. Hutton, a relatively inexperienced player in the merger game...
...Hutton, the fifth-largest U.S. brokerage firm, cannot escape an ongoing scandal. In fact, the company seems to become enmeshed ever deeper in suspicions and allegations. In May, Hutton was fined $2 million plus legal costs after pleading guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud involving an elaborate check-kiting operation. That admission, though, seems to have been just the beginning of the firm's problems. Last week Hutton divulged that it had failed to submit 18 documents subpoenaed by the Justice Department during a three-year investigation of its practices. Former Hutton President George L. Ball...
...searched for a project, briefly considering a movie about Andy Warhol star Edie Sedgwick before settling on Patrick Marber's play. Portman had avoided sexually charged roles ever since she played, in close succession, the street urchin in The Professional and the 13-year-old who flirts with Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Girls. "I had a bad early experience when The Professional came out. I'm really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as a sexual object when I was 12," she says. So she did such movies as Mars Attacks, Star...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
...bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt differently. This time the report was about him and his government...