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Every time I see a cook flipping burgers or a cleaning woman emptying the trash baskets, I wonder if I can resist the temptation to rob them...
...disasters. His recent action films have been box-office duds at home, though usually robust moneymakers abroad; last year's Daylight earned only $33 million in North America but $120 million elsewhere, making Sly a pricey export commodity. "He epitomizes the state our industry is in," says Daylight director Rob Cohen. "With Rocky he proved a $1 million film could be a big hit. Now we want to make movies for the global market, but how do we get global and still keep the domestic audience...
Simba, I don't think we're in Disneyland anymore. Disney's first Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast--based on the film and directed by a theme-park veteran, Rob Roth--was a traditional stage confection that came as close as possible to being a literal, three-dimensional re-creation of the movie. Yet to direct the stage version of The Lion King, the most successful movie in the company's history, Disney has hired someone who made her name in the avant-garde theater. It was a daring choice, for live theater has become an increasingly important part...
That gives GTE a head start in the race to sell customers a bundle of branded services that would include not only local and long-distance calling but also cellular and Internet access, all payable on a single bill. "Speed is critical here," says Rob McCoy, GTE's president for long-distance services, and GTE intends "to run very hard and very fast through this open window...
...undisputed star of the week, however, surpassing even the rocks, was the 25-lb. Sojourner, which Rob Manning, Pathfinder's flight-systems chief engineer, dubbed "The Little Rover That Could." Having inched its way down the steeply inclined lander ramp, the six-wheeled Sojourner crept gingerly onto the Martian surface early last week and, in its first official scientific experiment, shoved the nose of its X-ray spectrometer into the dust at the foot of the lander...