Word: jim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ahead -- after a full month of secret negotiations -- and that AOL would pay $4.21 billion. That's $210 million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...
...Waterboy earned in its first weekend--a record for any non-summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain. After three days in the plexes, The Waterboy made back its meager $23 million budget...
...errant slap shot. The films' running gag is of an innocent bystander getting clobbered by a sharp object. Pain is funny, if it's not yours. And the star can do anything, because he's our guy. In short, an Adam Sandler comedy is very like an early Jim Carrey comedy...
...hear you saying, "but Jim Carrey is funny!" Yep. Sandler is Carrey or Jerry Lewis without the physical dexterity, Danny Kaye without the verbal grace, Steve Martin without the patrician veneer. In the longer movie view, he's Abbott without Costello. Moviemakers and critics were probably not thrilled that, in 1941, with a mediocre B movie called Buck Privates, Bud and Lou were briefly Hollywood's top stars. What can we say? People want to laugh--at anything. Sandler happens...
Most of the Nation's 31 Republican Governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma's Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is JIM NICHOLSON, the G.O.P. party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...