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Last Monday the trio met with MCA-Universal boss Lew Wasserman, at 81 still the Godfather of Show, and his deputy Sid Sheinberg. Wasserman and Sheinberg were rankling under the ownership of Matsushita, the Japanese conglomerate. MCA was home to both Geffen, whose current music company is housed there, and Spielberg, whose Amblin films are distributed mainly through Universal; the director regards Sheinberg as a mentor of nearly 30 years. "Lew and Sid's intentions were to get back control of their company," says Katzenberg, "and they hoped we'd be an ally to them. We assured them we would...
...Winchell wrote that the "most fateful hour of the most fateful week of history is at hand." Only a careful reader of the chapter notes will learn that the very next item in his column that day began, "Maxine Moore, one of the prettiest chorus girls in Lew Brown's big hit, Yokel Boy, is now in Chicago to apply for a divorce...
...human remains horrified and sickened even experienced rescue workers. For the most part they found not bodies, just pieces of bodies. Lew Napolitan, who lives close by and ran to the scene, could not forget the sight of a thighbone covered with burned flesh. Monty Winchester, a member of the fire department in nearby South Heights, "came in this ((Friday)) morning after picking up parts of bodies all night, and he was pretty sick," said his friend Daniel Godich. "He had to take one guy out of a tree in pieces, and that was bad enough, but when he came...
Most of the 5,000 to 6,000 acres of privately owned old growth that remain can be seen in five minutes from a small plane circling inland near Humboldt Bay. Thron and pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture...
...included, one must have died directly from one's wounds in the war. That will not deter Puller's comrades however. "There has never been a suicide placed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," says Scruggs. "But we are going to find a special way to take care of Lew on Memorial...