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Actually, the film cost a thrifty $50 million; the $2.7 billion is for the startup of the multimedia company that Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen created in 1994. But since DreamWorks has been on the pokey side delivering boffo product from its TV and music divisions, the release of The Peacemaker has sparked anxious anticipation. Shouldn't the studio's first film, like the opening bars of a symphony, make a statement about the outfit's ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IS IT A BOMB? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...look like a reformer sweeping the place clean when he's the one who presided over the mess in the first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges, was succinct: "They'll try to get rid of me -- a knife in the back and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin Ditches Defense Minister | 5/22/1997 | See Source »

JAMES MCDOUGAL Bill's ex-buddy gets reduced pokey time for singing to Starr's Whitewater inquiry. Done deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Cambridge, you will not find the 1990s equivalent of Hokey-Pokey--the cheap ice cream sold by street vendors until the 1920's at a penny a lump. The trend among Harvard Square vendors is to offer more expensive, home-made, gourmet ice creams...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, Olivia M. Leland, and R. ALAN Leo, S | Title: Ice Cream: You Know You Want It--Here's Where to Get It | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

DIED. LARRY LAPRISE, 83, songwriter; in Boise, Idaho. LaPrise was playing ski lodges when he co-concocted the ideal entertainment for hyperactive children and rhythm-impaired adults: The Hokey Pokey (1949), which had a nation putting various extremities in, out and about. Big-band and heavy-metal versions followed--as LaPrise was hokey-pokeyed out of a fortune. Having sold his rights for a song, he became a postal worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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