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...kind of Republican," a "compassionate conservative" and, most important, a "good man"--to a national audience. Courtesy of an eclectic team of admen and message masseurs, the public will be marinated in images of the candidate. Each one will underscore the idea that this well-bred scion of a political dynasty is a regular guy with a good heart. Whether it's grainy footage in the convention film of Bush's childhood in Midland, Texas; a 30-sec. ad featuring Bush behind the wheel of a beat-up Ford Bronco on his dusty ranch outside Waco; or a candid moment...
...billion) and Seagram ($12.3 billion) would bring a fat payoff for Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the entire Bronfman family, which owns nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled less than flat Champagne...
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you: On Thursday, the scion of the Ford Motor Company made the startling admission that sport utility vehicles could pose a serious risk other motorists and (gasp!) the environment. No one was surprised by the facts themselves, mind you, but the source of the admission caught some industry analysts and environmentalists off guard. Ford, which has based its spectacular recovery and a hefty proportion of its profits on a hugely successful sport utility vehicle line, seemed to be shooting itself in the accelerator foot by pointing an unequivocally accusatory finger...
DIED. RAPHAEL DE ROTHSCHILD, 23, scion of the famous banking family; of an apparent drug overdose; in New York City. The Ivy-educated heir was found dead a week ago on a Manhattan sidewalk after a reported night of partying...
With Romeo, producer Joel Silver has bet that Li, like Jackie Chan in Rush Hour, can click with urban moviegoers if he is paired with black actors and backed by an assaultive hip-hop score. As Han, scion of a Chinese family at war with a black clan in San Francisco, Li must juggle ethnic rivalries and ethical responsibilities--in other words, kick everybody's ass, without regard to race or kinship. Han's only ally is the black kingmaker's daughter Trish O'Day (R.-and-B. thrush Aaliyah), in a romance so tepid it is consummated with...