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...movies and decided they were about spiritual uplift made easy. If the picture in fact turns out to be a hit, Midler may be miserable, but the suits will be happy. It will prove to them that films needn't be written; they can be assembled like Lego blocks. To others it will prove that moviemaking has become a sort of limbo dance: the lower you go, the higher you score...
...sense may dictate that executives are rewarded for successes and punished for failures, corporate America stands such logic on its head. Company profits declined for the third consecutive year in 1991, plunging 19%. But CEO pay increased 6%, not counting bonuses and long-term incentives. Westinghouse Electric CEO Paul Lego took a 69% pay cut when his bonus for '91 was eliminated. But he was awarded 700,000 shares in options, with a present- day value of $4.1 million, even though the company lost $1.1 billion last year. Counting the options, Lego actually received a 41% increase in compensation...
...these effects are like Lego blocks compared with the task confronting < ILM now: Spielberg's Jurassic Park, from the Michael Crichton best seller about dinosaurs roaming through a modern theme park. The mammoth mechanized beasts being assembled at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., will be filmed, broken down into computer code and inserted onto the live-action frame to interact with the humans. Spielberg's requirements for absolute movie realism will mean a 21st century marriage between the modelmaking Gepettos in Los Angeles and the video futurists in San Rafael. One ILM animator says the challenge...
...pokes at the bricks, trying to figure out which are buttons and which are removable pieces. We probably have to keep an eye on him; he might build high Lego walls around the "3" button. Then how will we call all the other guys...
...price we pay is cleanliness. Lego body parts litter the carpet, Play-Doh cans get kicked under the desks, and pieces of our Cornhusker State puzzle end up in our shoes. "This place is a sty," we've been told...