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...that for making videos and promoting her music. As is true with the film industry, a new monetary bench mark like Jackson's becomes the standard by which every star in town measures his or her ego. "The bigger the deals get, obviously everybody starts to shoot for the moon," says Bob Krasnow, former chairman of Elektra Records who now runs his own record label for MCA. "The marquee value of a well-known artist's name means a lot." Accordingly, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon--all of whom have deals that are close to expiring--will probably...
DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
Presentation of the setting was also questionable. The movie is set in Scottsdale Arizona, but it might as well be the moon for its resemblance to typical American life: luminous sunsets, clean safe streets, fancy modern flats or mansions for each character. Either Whittaker's on some secret publicity campaign for Arizona, or else the world's newest utopia is right under our noses--unlikely in that enlightened Arizona refused to celebrate Martin Luther King Day just a few years...
...order, not just a new political one, in which the poor will find their salvation on the Internet and private charities will succeed where government bureaucracies have failed. However great Newt's achievement in political terms, it was not enough for people who talked in terms of rearranging the moon and planets, and saw in Newt the chance for galactic change...
...APOLLO 13 Director Ron Howard and protean star Tom Hanks celebrate the virtues of community--ingenuity, patience, humor--with such fidelity and drama that the ill-fated 1970 moon shot becomes a triumph for Hollywood on its best behavior...