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...times were right for it. Everyone was complaining that there were too few good roles for women in American movies -- especially roles that permitted their characters to make their own decisions, control their own destiny. In fact, according to Mimi Polk, Thelma & Louise's producer, the movie did not "pitch well" to studio executives: "The script was full of subtlety that was lost in a two-sentence description." Polk feels, as well, that had she and her partner, Ridley Scott, proposed two male stars in the lead, they could have got a budget heftier than the $17.5 million they ultimately...
...divergence will be pointed up at the conclusion of the summit conference of the G-7 (the Group of Seven major industrial and financial powers) in London on July 15-17. The group last week formally invited Gorbachev to meet with them immediately afterward. He will then make his pitch for massive aid, and the seven undoubtedly will press him for assurances of fundamental change. They probably will get unsatisfactory answers -- except in the unlikely event that they can persuade him to adopt Yeltsin's program...
Time Warner executives are restricted from publicly discussing details of the deal until it is approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But Wall Streeters who heard the sales pitch said company officials contended that investors would get a good deal. In return for putting up cash, maintains Time Warner, stockholders would gain greater value for their stake in the company because its debt would be slashed by up to $3.5 billion. Even some analysts skeptical of the short-term payoff for investors acknowledged that the plan, if it goes ahead, would strengthen the company. "Overall, in the long term...
...bike up perfectly to shoot through an unlit passage." Perhaps the devil had been at work after all. A well-remembered curb had mysteriously moved several feet, and Morrow did a front flip into the air. He walked the rest of the way home, carrying his smashed bike, in pitch darkness...
Senate majority leader GEORGE MITCHELL is bucking to replace Dick Gephardt as GEORGE BUSH's Least Favorite Democrat. Mitchell's latest attack on the Administration's renewal of trade privileges for China as "immoral" and his strong support of the civil rights bill are part of his pitch for a White House run in 1996. "He takes a position the minute I finish speaking," gripes the President...