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...field, the Patriots' postseason has not been peaceful. In Los Angeles, General Manager Pat Sullivan, 33, Billy's boy, watched the game from the sidelines while bullyragging Raider Defensive End Howie Long. Next, curiouser and curiouser, Sullivan confronted Long in the milling aftermath. Linebacker Matt Millen dusted him off with a helmet, and Sullivan was restricted to the stands at Miami. In a sadder episode a couple of days later, young Wide Receiver Irving Fryar, 23, the leading punt returner in the N.F.L., showed up with a severed tendon in the little finger of his right hand. At first...
...crazy," says Liman, "because now I'm trying to convince Brad to stay in the movie, when he's the one who sent me the script! I could just see the whole film coming undone." Liman wound up casting Jolie, who was in England doing publicity for Tomb Raider II, over the phone...
Corporate Raider Carl Icahn's usual strategy is to buy a stake in a target company and then sell out to another bidder at a huge profit. But this time the New York City financier may stick around and keep the business. Last week he gained virtual control of TWA, the sixth largest U.S. airline, by accumulating at least 45.5% of the company's stock. In the process Icahn may have defeated Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Texas Air and a rival bidder for TWA, with a series of intricate maneuvers worthy of the Navy's Blue Angels flying aces...
...annual meeting of stockholders last week in Chicago, Chairman Thomas Wyman affirmed his company's defiance toward the would-be raider. Before a crowd of 300 shareholders and 80 reporters, Wyman lashed out at Fairness in Media, a North Carolina-based conservative group and potential Turner ally that wants to see CBS taken over in order to end what it sees as a liberal bias in the network's news division. Declared Wyman: "Those who seek to gain control of CBS in order to gain control of CBS News threaten its independence, its integrity--and this country...
...course, Alone in the Dark isn’t exactly Sophie’s Choice. A B-grade horror film based on an Atari video game, the film resembles a clumsy remake of Tomb Raider, minus the budget. Still, the movie – with its strong (and, supposedly, smart) female protagonist – could have been ripe territory for an actress who says she wants to be known more for her dramatic chops than her off-screen antics...