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That the supervisors caved in indicates that the accordion lobby is as powerful as the National Rifle Association. That is no surprise, since both organizations favor unregulated possession of lethal instruments. At least it can be said for the N.R.A. that its members practice accuracy out of earshot, deep in the woods. They also wear earplugs to deaden the sound...
...right, too. Years ago, before the scientific verdict on the dangers of smoking was conclusive, consumers were practically helpless. They had few clues about the lethal properties of the three-inch unfiltered weapon held tightly between their fingers. The smoking industry--an age-old cartel deriving economic sustenance from marketing death--certainly wasn't about to tell them...
...recognize these big Hollywood names: Joe Eszterhas, Shane Black, Jeffrey Boam? No? You may know them better by their products: Flashdance, Lethal Weapon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Eszterhas, Black and Boam are practitioners of an essential yet mostly invisible movie-making craft: screenwriting. While actors, directors and even producers gain fame and seven- figure salaries, screenwriters have traditionally been the Rodney Dangerfields of Hollywood...
...Pittsburgh native, Black, 28, had earned $400,000 for writing Lethal Weapon. He spent four months holed up in a cabin to write Boy Scout, an action mystery in which a private eye and a retired football player team up to solve a murder. Black wrote the script "on spec," meaning on a speculative basis with no studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter...
...were flying -- with the indispensable help of flight instructors -- in identical Italian-built, Marchetti SF.260W air-force trainers, experiencing the sometimes sickening thrill of aerial combat, but without the lethal weapons. I am neither a licensed pilot nor a natural-born killer. But this was a Walter Mitty dream of combat come true -- and, as someone once said about bullfighting, it may be inexcusable, but it's irresistible...