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...Sant adores characters who are literally too sensitive for words. This recommends his work to the serious younger audience, which tends to mime its discontents by striking sullen poses. But it is not a useful attribute for a maker of sound movies. Neither is Van Sant's disdain for narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...
Since violet blue was retired 14 months ago, 300 crayon aficionados a month have been complaining to Crayola maker Binney & Smith. The Easton, Pa., company took eight traditional colored crayons off the market and replaced them with such New Age hues as cerulean, dandelion and vivid tangerine. But protests from groups such as RUMPS (the Raw Umber and Maize Preservation Society) have swayed the crayon giant. One million boxes of the Crayola Eight came back on the market last week...
Time Warner's long courtship with potential foreign partners may finally be leading to an alliance. Last week two Japanese giants, electronics maker Toshiba and the trading concern C. Itoh, confirmed that they are negotiating to make an investment in the U.S. entertainment and communications company. In the deal currently being discussed, the Japanese corporations would invest $500 million each for a 12% share of a new Time Warner subsidiary that would bring together the company's movie, cable and TV-programming businesses...
...Most of them would agree that any director needs, as Coolidge says, "a strong male side and a strong female side." Good directors, she says, demonstrate "a nurturing ability," in order to draw good work from their actors, as well as the masculine ability "to be a tough decision maker and move things along. Now, finally, it seems, we will have enough movies coming out so that everyone will see that not all women are the same, that we offer different points of view -- different from men, but also different from each other...
...past three years B.C.C.I. has brokered and financed the sale of Astros II battlefield multiple-rocket launchers from Brazil to both Iran and Iraq. The enterprise has also sold Chinese Silkworm missiles to both countries. A spokesman for Avibras Industria, maker of the Astros rocket system, concedes sales to Iraq but denies any sales to Iran or any deals involving B.C.C.I. A spokesman also allows that the company received "insignificant" financing from the Brazilian B.C.C.I. bank that was used for "domestic purposes...