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Just as Indiana Jones fades into movie-hero history, along comes a new celluloid icon: Canada Campeau! The country's National Film Board is finishing up a $1.8 million TV movie called simply Campeau, which traces the career of the Ontario-bred real estate king, Robert. Never mind that Campeau's quixotic takeover of the U.S. department-store chains Allied and Federated led to bankruptcy for both, or that even his own holding company ousted him from its chairmanship. The movie's makers acknowledge that theirs is a "generous" view of Campeau as an enterprising hometown hero who made fortunes...
...years, there was nothing like it in the history of the world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500 windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became an instant urban icon. A movie encounter with King Kong in 1933 only added to the building's reputation...
...Latin and South America to take a stand against a long- ago uninvited guest; and African Americans, whose forebears were packed into slave ships and sent across the Atlantic because the Europeans needed their labor to replace that of the decimated indigenous populations. Their toppling of the Columbus icon represents, at its best, a bid to construct a new national mythology -- an urge they paradoxically share with the patriots after...
...Americans who remember crouching under their desk during grade-school air- raid drills, the Strategic Air Command -- which kept nuke-carrying bombers airborne round the clock -- was a special icon of the cold-war mythology. But last week Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced that SAC will be eliminated under a sweeping reorganization of the service. Its nuclear missiles and bombers will join the Tactical Air Command's conventional aircraft to form a single Air Combat Command. "Desert Storm demonstrated that the line between strategic and tactical air power has become blurred," says a report released by Rice's office...
...leads are not the problem; they illuminate their roles. Fox, an icon of sunny impudence, plays a blend of his two most famous roles: the sassy kid from Family Ties and the cherubic go-getter in the Back to the Future trilogy. And Hurt, Hollywood's white-collar star, mines wit and pain from a static character. The actor can get wondrously glum when he plays a smart guy flummoxed by fate, which is why he should have been cast as the hero-victims in Presumed Innocent and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Instead he got The Doctor, whose style...