Word: mel
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...airwaves were full with the sweet songs of such crooners as Frankie Laine and Mel Torme. Although teenage girl's new-found hysteria was directed to the "new" Frankie's tender tunes, their yearning for the "old" Frank Sinatra turns to nostalgia. "Poor Frankie," a Chicago girl tells Life magazine. "He's old now and has three kids...
Ever since he discovered what he claimed was $400 million in sunken treasure in 1985 off the coast of Key West, Fla., Mel Fisher has been no stranger to controversy. It visited him again last week when a Florida coin expert determined that a number of coins being sold through Fisher's museum were fakes. The county attorney has warned concerned customers that others may be too. The coins, purportedly taken from a Spanish galleon fleet lost in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1733, are genuine gold but not necessarily authentic, even though buyers received certificates from Fisher...
LETHAL WEAPON 4 (July 10). Six years is a long time between sequels, but this is a hardy franchise. Mel Gibson goes crazy; Danny Glover fumes. What's new? Well, Chris Rock is along to goose the youth market; Hong Kong's Jet Li kicks some Occidental butt and helps sell the film to Asia. Moral: good business is more important than than great moviemaking...
Casting was a series of sensitive political negotiations. Nichols considered Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson for Stanton, but his first choice was a fellow Clinton sympathizer, Tom Hanks. "He was eager," the director recalls. "Then he said the more he looked at certain things in the script, the less he could see himself doing the film. It was the philandering, I think. He's an at-home, family guy." (Carly Simon, another friend of Bill's, also withdrew as provider of the film's music.) Thornton, an Arkansas homeboy, took the Jemmons role only after receiving Clinton's dispensation...
...block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson. For the stations, that can mean an additional $100 million a year. That's good enough even for a bottom-line zealot like Mel Karmazin, chairman of the CBS Station Group. Said he: "We know better than anybody else what it's like to have the NFL and what it's like not to have the NFL. And it sure as hell is a whole lot better to have...