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Still unanswered were questions about Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reasons for freeing the couple. When Gorbachev phoned the Sakharovs in Gorky on Dec. 16 to invite them to return to Moscow, he offered few clues. "Gorbachev is a shrewd man, and we may not know yet how shrewd he may have been in this case," says a Western diplomat. "Even if Sakharov takes up where he left off, it is worth...
...soaring success of Top Gun is typical of the shrewd marketing methods Mancuso had championed at Paramount even before he took over as chairman. Top Gun was originally scheduled to open in late May, at the same time as Warner's Sylvester Stallone shoot-'em-up Cobra and MGM's horror flick Poltergeist II. Mancuso instead elected to preview the Paramount entry a week early, then expand its showing in the beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein...
...times, Tolins wonderfully captures the many sides of Salieri and provides the production with a commanding central presence. Tolins shifts easily between narrating and taking part in the action, and thus keeps the show running smoothly. Better as the young man than the old, he nevertheless sustains subtle and shrewd acting throughout...
...weapons to Iran and diverting the profits to fund the contras remains unclear, the operation reflects the contours of his personality: a love of clandestine operations, a fevered patriotism that leads him to act first and consider consequences later, an enthusiastic determination to put ideology into practice, and a shrewd ability to cover his tracks -- up to a point. Says a White House official: "He was a big believer in plausible deniability...
...REICHMANNS. Robert Campeau is little more than middle class when compared with the Reichmann family of Toronto. As reclusive as they are shrewd, the three Reichmann brothers -- Albert, 56, Paul, 54, and Ralph, 52 -- have quietly built a dominion estimated to be worth $18 billion since they fled Austria with their parents during World War II. With the savings they were able to bring out, the family bankrolled construction and steel ventures in Toronto, eventually moving into real estate speculation. In 1977 Wall Street hardly noticed when Olympia & York, the development firm founded by the brothers, picked up eight Manhattan...