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...January 1990 crash of an Avianca jet near Kennedy Airport was the sort of local disaster that gets TV news departments pumped up -- and often brings in Emmys. But the first station to arrive at the crash site in Cove Neck, L.I., was not one of the big boys from New York City. It was a crew from News 12, a 24-hour cable channel seen only on suburban Long Island. One of the channel's satellite trucks happened to be half a mile away when word of the crash came over the police scanner. The crew raced...
...Hampshire. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is more than $500,000, only a fraction of which was reimbursed by Sununu, though some trips were bankrolled by ( private corporate interests in apparent violation of federal ethics laws. On the day the restriction went into effect, Sununu took a military jet to deliver a commencement address at the University of South Carolina, a flight the White House deemed appropriate...
...spending money as fast as the Treasury could print it: $40 million for Warren Beatty's Bugsy, $50 million for Steven Spielberg's Hook. Peters, 44, also became known for such extravagances as spending $80,000 on a colleague's surprise party and delivering flowers to his girlfriend -- by jet...
...reporter covering the gulf war in January, Lara Marlowe saw jet fighters launched from an allied air base. In Iraq last week, she saw the ! sites they bombed. "I visited the landing strips, bridges and government ministries, as well as the blunders: for example, a water purification plant and a medical dispensary," she says. With Iraqi censorship lifted early this month, Marlowe was free to travel throughout the country. She found striking scenes: women in black robes carrying groceries through miles of rubble, a rusting merchant navy docked next to palm groves. Some of her experiences bordered on the surreal...
...cult hit Poison as they do for Godfather 3. But Hollywood went haywire last summer with action adventures, leaving the genre in a deep hole. And from that abyss crawls this year's budget behemoth, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a $14 million jet as his salary, but even if he had worked for free, the movie would have cost more than $80 million, or about five times what the original Terminator brought its distributor. The early word is that the new picture is worth every penny, but movie execs dare to hope that...