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...capture of America's best-known computer criminal, Kevin Mitnick, was front-page news, it was Littman who got the uber-hacker's inside, as-told-to story and wrote a book, The Fugitive Game, that was sympathetic to Mitnick. Since then, the telephone at the Littman home has rung at all hours of the night with digital oddfellas calling--often collect, from prison--just to chat. "I've even got calls on pay phones from fugitives wanted by the FBI," he says...
This is good strong stuff, not least because, as Newell says, Paul Attanasio's adaptation of Pistone's book offers "this absolutely novel point of view about the Mob," dealing as it does "with the lowest rung, the have-nots. I loved being at the bottom of the pond." So, obviously, did Depp. "He absorbs so much," says the wondering Pistone, with whom Depp hung out for weeks, perfecting all his mannerisms--right down to a nervous cough--that "he doesn't try. It just comes to him. And he remembers everything. He's like a sponge...
...prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners. The company named 38 new partner-managing directors to the post. Moral: on Wall Street as in sports, you can keep your stars only by paying at least as much as they...
...rung below these dream and scream queens are such hardworking actresses as lissome Maria Ford, 25, who has made 40 DTVs (Burial of the Rats, Naked Obsession) in eight years but says she earned less than $25,000 last year. "You have to love to act," she says. "The food is always bad; you never get any sleep; you work 17-hour days; the scripts change at the last minute." Ford's theory of nude scenes: "I'm willing to take off my clothes for 10% of a film so I can act in the other...
...also building up its military. In 1979 Deng Xiaoping told the generals and admirals of the People's Liberation Army that they would have to wait 10 years before they could collect their share of the wealth created by modernization. With the military's needs relegated to the lowest rung in his grand reform scheme, the defense budget was effectively frozen, and manpower was pared down from 4 million to 3 million. "Now the bill has come due," says a Washington analyst, "and the post-Deng leadership is paying...