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Charismatic and brilliant, Laudor saw his daily struggle as a war of TV channels. There was the Suicide Channel, with its images of slit wrists, Nazis, himself falling out of a window, and then there was the Calm Station, a cabin in the Alps, green pastures, still waters, souls restored. Both occupied the screen simultaneously, and sometimes it was only with the greatest of efforts that he could relegate the extreme visions to a corner, reduced, as it were, to a picture-in-picture presence, with reality flickering in the middle. Once Laudor could count on his father Charles...
...real world. "The monkeys are eating my brain," Michael had screamed on the day he was accepted to Yale Law School, the New York Post reported. But when he considered taking a job as a salesclerk at Macy's incredibly busy store in New York City, his father immediately saw the dangers. Go to law school instead, his father advised him. The law school, Laudor told the New York Times in 1995, turned out to be "the most supportive mental-health-care facility that exists in America." The Times story, documenting Laudor's recovery from schizophrenia and his struggle...
Laudor was seen driving away from the apartment in Costello's black Honda Civic, dropping it off in Binghamton, N.Y., to catch a bus to nearby Cornell University in Ithaca. There a campus police officer saw him, disheveled and spattered with blood. His hand bore marks that, authorities say, were consistent with defensive wounds found on Costello. A small scuffle broke out as Laudor resisted arrest, and an officer suffered a cut on her lip. In Ithaca, Laudor confessed to attacking Costello...
...took may have ceased to be effective. Others speculate that the attempt to contain his life with enough lucidity to work on a manuscript due in August placed extreme pressure on the perfectionistic Laudor, perhaps to the extent that he stopped taking his medicine. A publishing insider who saw Laudor's book proposal said it was written with "an almost mathematical use of language." It was an intensely emotional tribute to his father, who Laudor believed saved his life. On the day of the attack, Laudor's mother, perhaps worried by something Costello told her, phoned the Hastings police...
Going smaller is the strategy devised by IMAX's co-CEOs, Bradley Wechsler, 46, and Richard Gelfond, 42, two former investment bankers who were part of a group that acquired IMAX for $90 million in 1994. They saw in the Canadian firm a sleepy moneymaker. IMAX, founded in 1967, was "run like a candy store by its five original founders," says Wechsler. "There was really no business discipline." Since then, revenues have doubled, to $158.5 million in 1997, while profits have increased, to $20.7 million from a loss of $11.6 million in 1994. In the first quarter, revenues were...