Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of 16 hours or more, much of them at the word processor, where he uses software he designed for handling Hebrew. Working in an old stone house near his Jerusalem apartment, where he lives with his psychologist wife and three children, he is helped by a devoted, low-paid group of 15 to 18 disciples. On the side, he has written everything from a detective novel to a celebrated work of mystical thought, The Thirteen Petalled Rose. Steinsaltz also presides over two synagogues and two yeshivas and is a popular lecturer and radio speaker. "He is good at everything...
Meanwhile, Reynolds and Pryor kept making movies, but no one paid much attention. (Remember Malone? Critical Condition?) Reynolds occupied himself as director at his dinner theater in Jupiter, Fla., and as executive producer of the TV game show Win, Lose or Draw. Pryor retreated into the shadows of his fading celebrity. Both stars made bigger news appearing with Johnny Carson or Barbara Walters to refute stories that they were ill with AIDS. Ringwald switched mentors, leaving John Hughes, who had made her a star with Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, for Warren Beatty. It didn't work. Their film...
...stood in front of two East Side cinemas last week, yelling "Scab!" at those who were bold enough to pay the admission. Nobody listened. Broadcast News was a sellout and Nuts was not. The message: people pay to see the films they want to see -- and can't be paid to see the others. Indeed, the mayor broke his own boycott to see Ironweed, which, he complained to Variety afterward, "wasn't even worth...
Haig has become wealthy since he left public office. His international consulting firm, Worldwide Associates Inc., has done so well that he paid himself $2.7 million over the past two years. He advises such companies as Boeing and Amway Corp. and serves on the boards of half a dozen major companies. Early on, some of his advisers and aides expected him to take a leave from his business and focus solely on campaigning. "I had hoped he'd make a 110% commitment," said one former staffer...
Haig insists he has cut back on his private endeavors while running for President, and he estimates that he has given up $500,000 in speaking fees alone. But he sees no reason to curtail other business activities, including acting as a paid consultant to a South Korean conglomerate. "It's ludicrous to say that because you're running for President you can't eat," Haig retorts, eyes smoldering...