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Each industry executive seems to have a favorite horror story. Producer Irwin Winkler tells of the phone call he received in a mixing room at MGM while he was still dubbing the sound track of Rocky III. "A friend in Paris told me he'd already seen the film on videotape and that it was excellent," says Winkler. "At the same time, they were running it in British pubs and charging admission." Producer David Wolper says that after he completed the picture This Is Elvis, he found that "a projectionist in Chicago was copying the second reel...
...getting no such break from the biggest U.S. bank. He must pay 19% for an unsecured personal loan, off somewhat from last fall's high of 25% but still a towering rate. Similar chasms between business and consumer charges are now common in banks across the U.S. Says Irwin Kellner, economist and senior vice president at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York City: "Unlike the prime rate and other lending rates to business, which have come down considerably from their recent peaks, consumer lending rates have hardly budged at all, and in some cases are higher today than...
...have money, it must go into an account from which the institution deducts its charges ($690 a month for a cottage). If you die with money in the bank, it is disbursed in accordance with your will. But if the account runs dry before you die, said Dr. Irwin Salkin, chief of staff, "you're never billed. No one says a word. You just go on living here as if nothing happened...
Last week, as Dorfman and Irwin Weiner, his former partner in Mob-connected enterprises, walked to lunch through the parking lot of the suburban Hyatt Lincolnwood Hotel near Chicago, two men wearing ski masks ran up behind them. "This is a stickup!" yelled one. But obviously it was not. The man opened fire immediately with a .22-cal. handgun, hitting Dorfman in the back of the head seven times. As the attackers fled, Dorfman lay dying in a pool of blood. Weiner was uninjured...
Among the great skyscrapers built in Manhattan during the 1920s and '30s, the 56-story Chanin Building has worn its years well-as has its creator and namesake, Irwin Chanin, 91. The architect is being honored by his old alma mater, New York's Cooper Union, in a retrospective. Chanin designed eight Broadway theaters and two monumental apartment houses on Central Park West. Perhaps his most cherished work is his personal suite of art deco offices on the top floor of the Chanin Building. The bathroom alone, done in glass, mirror and gold plate over bronze, cost...