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...Yeah, I heard they stunt your growth...
...ever growing federal budget deficit. Last week the Administration reported that the deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 will hit a record $220.7 billion, which is some $8 billion above last year's level. Efforts to reduce the deficit next year by curbing federal spending could stunt economic growth in the short...
Landis, 36, one of Hollywood's most successful young directors (Animal House, Trading Places, Into the Night), faces up to four years in prison if convicted. He and two assistants, Special Effects Coordinator Paul Stewart and Stunt Pilot Dorcey Wingo, are accused of being criminally negligent during the filming of a Viet Nam War sequence in which a helicopter, disabled by a special-effects explosion, crashed onto Morrow, 53, and Vietnamese Actors Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Le, 7. The director and two other colleagues, Associate Producer George Folsey and Production Manager Dan Allingham, are charged with an additional...
Well before the accident, the prosecution contends, Landis was so overbearing on the job that he was disposed to recklessness. D'Agostino said her witnesses would swear that when warned by a casting director that children should not be used in the stunt, Landis curtly responded, "The hell with you." As D'Agostino told it, Landis cavalierly shrugged off the concerns of another employee during a rehearsal of the stunt. According to the attorney, the director told his worried colleague, "This is just a warmup for what's coming. You haven't seen anything yet." Landis, she said, refused...
...treelined Champs-Elysees, one of the world's most fashionable boulevards, momentarily became a runway last week. The stunt occurred after the street had been closed to traffic for the shooting of a promotional film to aid Paris' bid for the 1992 Olympic Games. As the cameras rolled and 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Hurdler Guy Drut ran, torch in hand, up the deserted avenue, a blue, single-engine Rallye-Club suddenly zoomed in over the Arc de Triomphe and put down in a perfect landing...