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...brief sweet moment, it seemed that the Middle East peace talks scheduled to reconvene this week after a four-month hiatus might be more than another round in an interminable game. Israel agreed to deal directly with a major participant previously excluded from the table -- Faisal Husseini, the mastermind of the Palestinian delegation. Israel had objected to Husseini because he comes from East Jerusalem, an area the country contends is its own. It agreed to include him in hopes of boosting his relatively moderate position. But days before the talks were to begin, the main Arab participants asked...
Harvard women's tennis Coach Gordon Graham would like to say the same thing. But with a 5-4 loss to Brown in Providence on Wednesday, life's been more like a sweet-potato pie: yucky...
What makes Mike run? For starters, he surely wants to cleanse himself of agenting's residual Sweet Smell of Success-era taint. In the old-fashioned show business pecking order, according to a veteran producer at one of the studios, agents were "one step above child molester." Ovitz and CAA have given their trade glamour and stature of a kind that was unimaginable a generation ago, but they still can't order a movie or TV show into production; they are still only middle people, not buyers. On the other hand, Ovitz has turned down the top job at Columbia...
...Sherry Lansing when they worked together until a few years ago as independent producers; now they run Paramount, against whom CAA continually negotiates deals. CAA is also a regular bargainer with 20th Century Fox, which Joe Roth ran until late last year, when Ovitz helped him negotiate an astonishingly sweet producer's deal with Disney. And Mike Eisner, who runs Disney, is one of Ovitz's best friends. The beneficiaries of such coziness, of course, have no problem with the blurry roles; it is simply the way business is done. "I'd rather all the elements in a film came...
BILL CLINTON DOESN'T KNOW ANASTASIA GVOZDIKOVA, BUT HE SHOULD. As one of only a few thousand Russians studying in the U.S., Gvozdikova can testify to the truth of the President's assertion that "freedom, like anything sweet, is hard to take from people once they've had a taste...