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...higher power to help navigate his Titanic to a safe harbor at the box office next summer. The picture, which has been in production since September on locations ranging from Nova Scotia to Baja California, is already causing a stir in Hollywood with its burgeoning budget, which studio sources peg as low as $120 million and others put as high as $180 million. If the bigger estimates are correct, Titanic is in contention to be the most expensive picture ever made, surpassing Waterworld's mere $170 million budget. Throw in tales of the usual Cameron-generated on-set turmoil--plus...
Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...
...said if he had power, he could solve Chechnya. Well, now he has the power, and unfortunately, I still can't see any results." By then Lebed's agreement was already in the works. Was the President unaware of events, or simply determined to cut his rival down a peg? Or was Yeltsin just trying to avoid being the answer to the almost inevitable question: Who lost Chechnya...
...notion to pick him off, but he delivers to the plate where the batter swings to protect the runner who decides to go now, and the second baseman braces himself to make the tag if only the catcher can rise to the occasion and put a low, hard peg inside...
...watched the sun peeking over the Atlantic, she saw that the glassy calm of the ocean during the past day and a half had disintegrated. In its place were "a lot of choppy, wind-driven waves." Unsettled by the sight, she returned home and phoned her sister Peg. Even before Judy could finish her description, Peg broke in to say she understood. "She thinks it's a sign of all the distressed souls still out there," says Judy. "The ones who were lost in the night...