Word: jims
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Strick took over Wolf from novelist Jim Harrison, and Batman Returns from the brilliant Daniel Waters (Heathers). "Sometimes I feel like a burglar," says Strick. "It's like being invited to someone's house for a week and rifling through their drawers. Being assigned to rewrite a script by a really good writer, you may think that all you're doing is taking this wonderfully idiosyncratic thing and homogenizing it into a 'Hollywood' movie. But sometimes, after two or three years and three or four rewrites, the original writer can get ground down and fed up. Personalities can get flinty...
...great book about a motorcycle adventure will hit the shelves later this summer. A notorious capitalist, Jim Rogers, and a blond half his age, Tabitha Estabrook, ride around the world on two fancy BMWs, up and down Africa and South America, across Siberia, China, Europe -- six continents, 65,000 miles. I wouldn't have given them a chance in Vegas of surviving the bandits, but they weren't worried about bandits. They were too busy looking for investments along the road...
Conservation groups trumpeted the eagle's comeback as a triumph for the Endangered Species Act of 1973, but the motives behind their enthusiastic press releases were partly political. Observes Jim Pissot, Washington State director of the National Audubon Society: "The Act itself is now endangered." Indeed, the law is currently up for reauthorization in Congress, and property owners and developers are working hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells...
...attack the moisture-carrying vessels of vines and can kill them off in a year. Particularly vulnerable are vineyards near lakes and rivers, where the bug lives, since spraying with pesticides is banned because of the danger to fish and water. In case of a sharpshooter onslaught, says viticulturist Jim Wolpert of the University of California at Davis, a grower's only recourse is to "yank the vines and start over...
...fallen television evangelist Jim Bakker is expected to be released from prison tomorrow, four and a half years after he was put away for stealing $150 million his Praise the Lord Club followers. He'll go to a halfway house in Asheville, NC where the former reverend will work for an unknown local business...