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...with Patti LuPone, the creator of the role in London; it cost him $1 million to buy LuPone out. Faye Dunaway, meanwhile, was engaged as Close's successor in L.A., only to be fired when Lloyd Webber decided her voice was not up to the part; her $6 million lawsuit is pending. Close, her mobile face and twitching hands working overtime, captures all the character's narcissistic neuroticism, and she sings in a clear soprano that, if unschooled, is nevertheless a welcome relief from LuPone's raw edge...
...amounts the Sony team spent verge on the hilarious. The company paid $200 million to buy the Guber-Peters company and gave the two men annual salaries of $2.7 million, as well as $50 million in deferred compensation. Sony then shelled out assets worth $500 million to settle a lawsuit that had been filed by Warner Bros., which had Guber and Peters under contract. "This was an obscenely expensive arrangement," says Porter Bibb, an analyst at Ladenburg, Thalmann in New York...
...Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether or not the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the right to privacy -- also prevents schools from conducting drug tests on students. The lawsuit was brought in Oregon against a school district which tossed the plaintiff, James Acton, off the football team in 1991 after he refused a drug test. A lower court ruled against the student but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The district's appeal relies on a 1985 Supreme Court ruling that states that the need to maintain order in public schools can justify limits on privacy...
With a household income of about $27,000 a year, including both Marie's factory wages and John's pension as a janitor, the Krafts contend they are too poor to fight the lawsuit. And they continue to deny the bigotry charge. "I work with a mixture of everything, and we get along fine," says Marie. In fact, since January 1993 the Krafts have filed 12 police complaints against the Ramoses, charging them with various acts of harassment and intimidation, but police dismissed the complaints...
...secretary of state and attorney general would both look into it, there would be no need to file a lawsuit," he said...