Word: mortons
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...Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation at Morton's." Observes Ira Deutchman, president of Fine Line Features: "As irritating as it is to have the place swarming with Hollywood folks, I can't see how that's a negative. Without them, Sundance would be a marginalized event...
...MORTON HALPERIN, former director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, withdrew his name from consideration for a top Pentagon job last week. Attacks from conservatives on the Senate Armed Services Committee were the reason for his decision. But Halperin may still work in the Administration, White House sources say. If he is proposed for a job at the State Department, the more congenial Senate Foreign Relations Committee might well approve, so a position there is one possibility. Another is a post at the National Security Council, which would not require Senate confirmation...
...about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...
...curious way, Diana has grown more dependent on the reporters and photographers whom she lambasted last week. No matter what her standing at the palace, she remains the ubiquitous cover girl. She has cannily used writers and reporters to her advantage, particularly Andrew Morton, whose intimately sympathetic account of her collapsing marriage triggered the break a year...
...pounding was relentless. As the latest Clinton Administration nominee sat before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Senators took their turns delivering the blows. First, South Carolina's nonagenarian Strom Thurmond took up the cudgel, blustering about what he called "a compelling prima facie case that ((Morton Halperin)) is unsuited for any position in the Pentagon" and calling him a man of "deeply flawed judgment" who has failed "to create an impression of reliability or trustworthiness." Then John McCain of Arizona spoke of "profoundly disturbing questions about Halperin's judgment, his credibility, and his suitability to hold a position...