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...back to its pre--Timmy's-trapped-in-a-well roots. "I never saw the TV show, and I can't recall any of the films," says Sturridge, who hopes to have his movie ready for a Christmas release. "But the original novel"--Lassie Come-Home, written by Eric Knight in 1940--"was set in Yorkshire, and it had a certain prewar British integrity about it. In current children's films, you have to be ironic to reach the parents in the audience. It's a profitable formula, but this film won't appeal to one audience over the heads...
...Getty Board Member Henry Wendt testified that the offer of $110 a share by Pennzoil's Liedtke was "hostile" and said the board had rejected it on Jan. 2. Miller argued that Getty's board had felt trapped by Pennzoil's offer and sought out a so-called white knight to be a friendlier merger partner...
...Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
...Kasparov had merely to draw the next three games. But caution is not his style, and he attacked in the first part of Game 22. The next day a rapt Leningrad audience watched as officials revealed the move Kasparov had decided on before adjournment the previous evening: a knight's assault on the king. The crowd rose and cheered as they realized that the tactic almost certainly guaranteed victory. The last two games were draws, making the final score 12˝-11˝. Last week after the 23rd game, when Karpov's defeat had become inevitable, the two men shook hands...
...news industry finds itself in an “untenable situation”—plagued by “malaise you can cut with a knife,” said Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation and formerly an Emmy Award-winning reporter for PBS’ “Frontline...