Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month before the curtain is supposed to rise, the Senate hearings on campaign-finance abuse are shaping up like the movie Titanic, an ambitious production that Hollywood can't seem to bring to the screen. By last week Thompson, an ex-actor who was chief Republican counsel in the Watergate hearings, was still looking for the basic elements of political spectacle: star witness, clear story line, boffo ending. Virtually every principal figure on the foreign-money side of the scandal plans to take the Fifth or has fled--bankrollers James Riady, Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak are living...
...books, TIME's panelists say, is its rare combination of tireless growth and stable prices. The 1960s and '80s went from boom to bust when the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to keep prices from getting out of hand. But these days, inflation is barely on the radar screen, even though the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.9%, a level not seen since Richard Nixon was President. That astonishes Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman. If he had bet on such results four years ago, Blinder notes, "I could have got odds...
...cons in Con Air could almost have landed their plane on it. We speak of The Desk, the 20-ft.-long, T-shaped mahogany table once shared by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. From this monolith the two producers launched enough script-to-screen missiles to become Hollywood's premier action faction. Their two-hour commercials for American machismo (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide) made stars of their young actors and quillions for S. and B. Then in January of last year, Simpson died at 52 of a drug overdose. The industry asked, Whither--or wither...
DIED. DAVID LUDLUM, 86, weatherwise historian whose meteorological forecasts influenced the course of World War II; in Princeton, N.J. Well before smiling suns and animated cold fronts gained the day (and screen), this soldier-forecaster surveyed the skies to help time a successful assault on a German fortress in Italy...
REDMOND, Wash.: Aiming to take over your television screen as well as your desktop, , Bill Gates scooped up an 11.5 percent chunk of Comcast , the country's sixth largest cable operator. That gives him Comcast's stake in @Home Network , an online service that uses cable modems to provide rapid access to the Internet. TIME Business editor Bill Saporito?s view? ?Now Bill's got himself a delivery truck. Cable is such a capital-intensive industry because of the equipment. So for Comcast, which has a lot of debt, money is always welcome. It's not really a big deal...