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MOVIES . . . SPACE JAM: It's finally here, the long-hyped Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny collaboration. In plot, 'Space Jam' is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy?s most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsey Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn?t renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside...
...lack of hit products has hurt retailers like Toys "R" Us, because hot toys drive parents into stores, where they may then buy classic toys as well. This Christmas retailers are expecting big things from Barbie and Nintendo 64, as well as from licensed toys related to Space Jam, 101 Dalmatians, Star Wars and Toy Story...
...crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s in service were to be checked within...
...musically self-taught Edmonds met the man who would become his longtime business associate and songwriting partner, Antonio ("L.A.") Reid while both were members of the late pop band the Deele in 1982. It was a match made in pop-music heaven (or B-school fantasies). Reid cites Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the producers who helped put Janet Jackson on the pop map, as an early influence. Says Reid: "They were the first present-day producing duo to become stars. Before them, producing was a very behind-the-scenes function. Jimmy and Terry made it chic." Because...
...just as much satisfaction helping somebody out that might be in a jam as I do making a big arrest," Crowley says in his thick Boston accent...