Word: normans
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...past 30 years. Now he seems poised to break a few more, acknowledging his interest in purchasing the network that has been his home for so many years: NBC. General Electric, which has owned the network since 1986, continues to insist it is not for sale. But Norman Brokaw, chairman and CEO of the William Morris Agency, which represents Cosby, says the entertainer is still interested in assembling partners and obtaining financing. Possible price tag: $4 billion. "Bill Cosby enjoys producing and creating things," says Brokaw. "He has some ideas about quality television. He'd heard rumors of others wanting...
THEY WERE COMRADES-IN-ARMS AND CO-COMMANDers of the Persian Gulf War, but Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia has now issued some fighting words about his old friend General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. At issue is Schwarzkopf's current best seller, It Doesn't Take a Hero, which General Khaled has read and found riddled with "inaccuracies and slanted remarks." In an unusually open gesture for a member of the Saudi royal family, the prince released a public statement accusing the general of exaggerating his own role during the ) conflict ("One has to wonder whether there...
...Norman Lear, the TV mogul and co-founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood...
...meaning of A River Runs Through It is somewhere just beneath the surface, like a fish waiting to be caught. My grandfather was a fisherman and I admired him much the same way that Norman and Paul admire the Reverend Maclean. But I never really understood the lure of fishing and though I watched my grandfather attentively, I never learned anything. Without that knowledge of how a fish thinks, I don't think I could ever really comprehend "A River Runs Through It," at least not without the help of Maclean's prose. Redford's illustrations are incredibly beautiful...
Based on the story by Norman Maclean...