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...anxious that last week the White House called on a sullied though solid political operator. When Tony Coelho quit the House in 1989, he held the third-ranking party post and seemed destined to be Speaker. But he had accepted a questionable loan to buy junk bonds. Rather than undergo an ethics probe, he embarked on a successful investment-banking career...
...still on the picture." While on the job, you must be, in the words of talent agent Jeremy Zimmer, "an artist, a technician and a diplomat" -- jobs that may be mutually exclusive. The trick, Whedon says, is to "know how to please people without turning work into junk...
...funny thing is that, with all these smart people exerting all their energy fine-tuning characters and dialogue, most movies are still junk. Perhaps Sturges and the other great writers-turned-directors of his era had it right: one good writer's vision needs no revision. And perhaps Paul Rudnick was onto something when, for the small, independent film version of his off- Broadway play Jeffrey, he put into his contract that he would not be removed from the project. "I felt that I wasn't going to be paid studio money for this," he says, "so in return...
...year 1414 Zheng He, Grand Eunuch of the Three Treasures, loaded some exotic creatures onto his junk and headed back to China from the coast of East Africa. One, the long-necked K'i-lin, astounded Emperor Yu and his court. It was unlike anything they had ever seen, with its "luminous spots like a red cloud or purple mist." The K'i-lin was poked, prodded, observed from every angle, much commented upon but little understood...
...their spacious, apartment-like set in New York City. When not trading quips with a wisecracking hand puppet, they introduce segments that make Good Morning America look like The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: a visit to an Oklahoma ostrich farm; an interview with a Florida man who makes furniture out of junk; a live report on Hula-Hoopers in the park across the street. This is homemade TV -- and proud of it. On the show's first broadcast, Bergeron playfully chased his executive producer around the set and accidentally broke a lamp. "You're watching our final day on fX," joked Bergeron...