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Being Coppola--sire of the Godfather films, mogul of his own Zoetrope studio, vintner and publisher, capo di tutti capi of the Movie Brat generation--he would not come up with any old director's cut. Apocalypse Now Redux is more than a tinkering, with a brief scene added here, some computer effects daubed in there. It is a complete recutting of the original 5-hr. assemblage; the 2 1/2-hr. running time of the 1979 version has been expanded to include 53 minutes of previously unshown footage. If any recut can be a "new" movie, this one is--vivid, harrowing...
...Winners BILL GATES Mogul wins award for his funding of vaccine development. Feds haven't weighed in on his plan to bundle those vaccines with Office XP KIM JONG IL N. Korea's leader makes state visit to Moscow in armored train. Obviously, he's worried about being mobbed by screaming teen girls ALLAN HOUSTON Basketball guard signs $100 million contract with the Knicks. During press conference he vows to live lavishly and acquire expensive cars Losers PRINCE PHILIP Queen's hubby tells 13-year-old aspiring astronaut he's too fat for space. This from a man whose...
...mayor--swept into an awards breakfast in Harlem, and nobody seemed to care. Green is the most quotable Democrat in town, but when reporters approached him at the breakfast, they only wanted to talk about the short, wispy-haired man who showed up 10 minutes later: billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 59, the political novice who created a minor sensation last week by announcing as a Republican candidate for mayor. "He's the flavor of the half-day," sniffed Green. "I don't think about him at all." But throughout the breakfast, Green was ignored--while Bloomberg had photographers camping...
...mogul is betting he can sell himself as the Nice Rudy, a boss to keep the city safe without all that Giuliani vindictiveness and soap-opera strife. (Giuliani and his estranged wife have been fighting about whether his girlfriend can visit Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence. Even New York is getting sick of it.) And Bloomberg's fortune--estimated at $4 billion--isn't his only weapon. John McCain, the most popular politician in the country right now, tells TIME that he will be stumping for Bloomberg. "I hope and intend to campaign for Michael," says the Arizona Senator...
VINCE MCMAHON Wrestling mogul's upstart XFL folds at end of first season. One outcome he didn't script...