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Some observers say Diller is getting out while the getting is good. The film division has floundered with costly snoozers like Dying Young and For the Boys. The TV network could sail back into red ink when it expands from five to seven nights. And Murdoch, now based in Los Angeles, promises or threatens to be a hands-on boss...
...marriage to Anne, mired in comfort and mutual tolerance, will outlast the rough shocks of separation. And what of Strickland's film? Will it be an expose of a hollow man and woman? "You're not making fun of us, are you?" Anne asks Strickland, shortly before Owen sets sail. "There's no reason Strickland should want to make me look bad," Owen reassures his wife...
...NEWPORT, R.I., WHEN SHE was dating Tom Blackaller, a legendary sailor whose boat, Clipper, shared a dock with Ted Turner's Courageous. The adventuresome California blond, who could drive race cars, pilot sailboats and fly airplanes, caught his eye, and that winter Turner invited her to sail with him on the Southern Ocean Racing circuit out of St. Petersburg. Although he did not own an airplane, he hired Ebaugh as a pilot, and she moved to Atlanta in 1981, bringing along a used one she had bought for him. The relationship (and the piloting) lasted until 1986, when she announced...
...Haiti were ruled by communist dictators rather than military tyrants whose only ideology is power, the multitudes who have set sail from that downtrodden country in a desperate bid for freedom in the past month might well have found refuge in the U.S. Instead, those who dared the perilous 650- mile voyage toward America found that America has no place for them. Since the latest outpouring of Haitian refugees began, the U.S. Coast Guard has plucked them by the thousands from their leaky vessels and held them in detention centers or aboard American ships. And then, until a federal judge...
Risking Death at Sea, Haitian Refugees Set Sail for America...