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...surveying his flattened home with a sick heart, searching for some sign of his family, when he saw his wife Virginia a few hundred feet up the street. She had taken refuge in the bathtub, been carried through the air and landed alive. In Cedar Park, Caryl and Joe Simpson hid in the utility closet of their home with their four sons and family dog. It was the only room left standing. Back in Jarrell, Ladonna Peterson, her son, niece and mother-in-law squeezed into a bathtub. "It got dark, black, and I saw the funnel cloud coming toward...
...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...
...Desk is in mothballs now, and so are any questions about Bruckheimer's ability to do it himself. Last year's The Rock, which he produced without Simpson's help, earned a burly $134 million at home and $196 million more abroad. Con Air, which could equal that take, wears the Jerry Bruckheimer Films label, but it has all the S. and B. accoutrements: a director bred on Madison Avenue, a Lego-assembly plot about escaping from a confined space, a lot of chatty male attitude, a dogged belief that car crashes and gay men are hilarious, and the near...
...immigrant clothing salesman, Jerry worked on Mad Ave. before meeting Simpson, who had been the "house hippie" at Warner Bros. "Don was a brother as well as a partner," says Bruckheimer. "He was a small-town boy who grew up in the studio system; I was the city boy who was always the outsider." Their first film together, the Jazzercise tape called Flashdance, earned $95 million at the U.S. box office in 1983, back when that was real money...
Lewis says that despite the negative image of lawyers harbored by Americans after the O.J. Simpson trial, he still believes lawyers contribute a lot to society...