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...little fear on the left wouldn't be such a bad idea right now. Those of us who zealously care for our rights and value freedom as a paramount goal of government must realize that we are caught between a rock and a hard place: maintain the single-minded focus on freedom and individualism and lose the personal responsibility that makes them possible, or seek to resurrect community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear...
Over the past few years, tobacco companies have spent heavily to update their manufacturing facilities, resulting in several rounds of layoffs. There could be yet another wave of consolidation--or even wholesale corporate restructuring--across the industry, as cost cutting becomes paramount. Some lawyers will lose out as the industry redirects some of the $600 million it spends annually on legal expenses. Remarkably, the industry will find some savings on its tax bill: the settlement costs are deductible...
...stay on a movie set," he says. Spielberg's deal with DreamWorks is that he will direct one film "at home" for every two he makes outside. Amistad is a DreamWorks venture; The Lost World is for Universal, and Saving Private Ryan is co-produced with Paramount...
...been a trying couple of weeks for Harrison Ford. First, his leading lady in the upcoming Six Days/Seven Nights, Anne Heche, overnight became the world's second most famous lesbian. Then he learned that Fox and Paramount want to open their joint $200 million production, Titanic, on July 25--right up against his big summer picture, Air Force One, being released by Columbia...
Ford has generated a lot of loot for Paramount over the years, playing various Indiana Jones or Tom Clancy heroes. The star reminded Paramount of that in a Forceful call to studio boss Jonathan Dolgen, in which he requested that Dolgen kindly get Titanic the hell out of his way. The summer is already crowded with costly cinematic icebergs, including Conspiracy Theory, starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, which is also supposed to open on July...