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Brown has no experience in filmmaking; he is a radiologist in Manassas, Virginia. But like a few hundred thousand other readers of that week's New Yorker, he was enthralled by the cinematic possibilities of Richard Preston's chilling true story about scientists battling to contain the Ebola virus, which is as deadly and gruesome as aids, yet has an incubation period of only one week. The story was full of pungent quotes like "There wasn't going to be any safe place in the world," and "Karl, you'd better come quick to the lab. Fred has harvested some...
...almost any enthusiastic amateur might have spurred Crisis in the Hot Zone into production faster and with happier results than the Hollywood royalty -- Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, director Ridley Scott and producer Lynda Obst -- to whom 20th Century Fox entrusted this $50 million thriller. Nearly two years after Preston's article appeared -- time enough for him to expand it into a book, The Hot Zone, due in stores in a few weeks -- the film had not begun shooting. Last week, in fact, it looked kaput. Or, as a chagrined insider euphemized, "It's sleeping...
These assaults on the World Bank, which have surfaced in several academic books and in speeches by congressional leaders, have pushed president Lewis Preston, a former chairman of the J.P. Morgan banking company, to initiate what may become historic changes at the bank. In 1992 he launched an overhaul of the $104 billion loan portfolio and a year later hired New York public relations whiz Herb Schmertz to revamp the institution's image. Schmertz turned in a confidential report several months ago that acknowledged some of the most serious accusations against the bank and said there exists "a significant...
Rostenkowski, 66, the son of a Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part...
...there may be more to come. Fox expects to pick up 15 other affiliates over the next year, reportedly including the NBC station in San Francisco. "A number of other stations see the operational advantages of moving to Fox," says Preston Padden, head of Fox affiliate relations, "but they had trouble getting over the emotional hurdle of leaving their traditional network. This announcement should help several of them get over that hurdle...