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...issue sharply divided city residents. The memory of slain 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley was fresh on many of their minds. And the surprise reduction of an English au pair's murder conviction, following the death penalty vote, raised anew residents' doubts about the death penalty...
Toomey said his decision was influenced by his close relationship with the Curleys--the parents of Jeffrey, whose body was found October in a Maine river...
...dispute pits Jeffrey Katzenberg, the diminutive and determined former chairman of the Walt Disney Co. studio, against Michael Eisner, the towering and truculent chief executive and chairman of the whole Disney shebang. The fight stems from Katzenberg's claim that Disney promised him 2% of the profit from the film and other ventures he headed during his 10 years at the studio, a sum that might reach $250 million or more. Some of those projects, notably animated hits like Aladdin and The Lion King, generated billions in revenue...
...brand name for animation. Its chief rivals in the '40s and '50s, Warner Bros. and MGM, which were besting Disney in the quality and appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, took in $47 million at the North American box office, equal to the grosses of both the previous Disney effort, The Black Cauldron...
...source close to Murphy has revealed to PEOPLE correspondent Jeffrey Wells that Murphy may also be upset over remarks Tarantino made on the Fox Network's ?Keenan Ivory Wayans Show? last Monday. On the late night talk show, Tarantino claimed he'd been "looking" for Murphy for three years and had been planning a confrontation. He said he "bitch-slapped" Murphy three times ? a comment that drew wild applause from Wayans' audience. "Tarantino then said, according to the Murphy source, something to the effect that ?bitch-slapping? is a good way to humiliate somebody...