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...Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute clip including Pee-wee that was being shown during backstage tours of its theme park in Orlando...
Meanwhile, bankers laden with bad credit have remained reluctant to make new loans. That has helped perpetuate a credit crunch that began last year when bank regulators tightened loan standards to avoid a repeat of the savings and loan fiasco. Even the Fed's lowering of interest rates in recent months has scarcely encouraged bank lending to pick up. Asserts Hugh Johnson, chief economist for First Albany, a securities firm: "More than at any time in the past, banks are dragging their feet...
...says, are based on the first draft of a script that has been substantially revised. (The Ferrie murder scene, for example, has been eliminated.) Stone compares the Post's attack on his film to the Hearst newspapers' efforts to suppress Citizen Kane five decades ago. "This is a repeat performance," says Stone. "But nothing is | going to stop me from finishing this movie." The director insists, moreover, on his right to make a movie that expresses his view of a critical historical event. "William Shakespeare made Richard III into a bad guy. Now the historians say he was wrong. Does...
...lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice, they are unlikely to be repeat clients...
...wants to repeat past mistakes. In fact, plans and procedures for the entire project, slated to break ground in October, have been subject to intense public scrutiny. Often they have been found lacking...