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...Levy, asked Lewis to direct both Take the Money and Run and Bananas), Steve Martin and, of course, Jim Carrey. As a solo act, Lewis has at various times been the highest-paid performer in film, on television and on Broadway. Levy, a film critic for the Portland Oregonian, does a skillful job of putting Lewis' career in historical context, from a creative as well as a business standpoint (the shift in power from the studios to stars and their agents was a major factor in Lewis' rise). Levy readily acknowledges the sloppiness and indulgence of much of Lewis' movie...
Richard Read, an international business writer at The Oregonian in Portland, will study international politics, trade and finance...
...everyone should have been blissful when the celebration of TONYA HARDING's second nuptials (and her 29-year-old husband MICHAEL SMITH's fourth) were captured by a Globe magazine photographer in return for $10,000. Instead, police were called in after a guest sold a photo to the Oregonian for $100. Harding, worried that her contract with the Globe had been nullified, accused the guest, known only as Bob, of theft, saying rolls of official photographs were missing. He says he took the photos himself, never realizing it was verboten. A meeting among Harding, Smith, Bob and the photographer...
That charge, detailed last week in the Salem Statesman Journal and the Portland Oregonian, is actually an old one, dating from 1983. The Washington Post printed her account of the episode in February 1993. However, the woman, now 29, did not take it to the Ethics Committee until July 19--partly because she wanted to protect her privacy and partly because she was skeptical about whether the panel would give it a fair hearing, explained her lawyer W. Neil Eggleston. Even then her complaint languished with the staff for weeks, until Aug. 3, the day after the Senate...
...Union records show that on Jan. 5 and 6 Eckardt wired two payments to Smith. Investigators are trying to determine if any of the money drawn from Gillooly's account was provided by Harding. So far, the trail seems to be cold, save for Eckardt's claim in the Oregonian that Gillooly offered to pay Stant and Smith a bonus to get the job done -- showing them a $10,000 USFSA check in his wallet...