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Bill Mechanic wasn't having much of a honeymoon. When he was named chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment a few months earlier, he had been thrust to the front line in the battle to gain control over the making of Titanic, the vastly ambitious epic conceived by director James Cameron. The movie was seriously behind schedule and wildly over budget. July 4, the planned release date, had come and gone. Yet as the weeks ticked by, the obsessive Cameron showed no sign of completing his editing. Titanic was going to be in dry dock right through summer...
...manipulated, an attitude which could lead to pornography and abuse. To clarify her point, Adatto screened a series of current art and advertising photographs of children. In one image, the head of a girl is cropped from the photo; in another, a child is posed like a model, torso thrust at the camera...
After junior Troy Jones's season opener, it didn't seem that Chris Menick would get the chance. But Jones's second-week injury thrust the sophomore into the starter's job, and he has thrived with his consistently grinding and productive play...
Hersh writes with the passion and single-mindedness of an investigator. He wants us to believe that he reached to the hidden heart of the matter with just about every thrust he made into Kennedy territory. To a reader who gets to his last page, it doesn't often feel that way. The full story of John Kennedy is still being built out of intricate pieces. Dark Side adds a few more of them. But both the man and the book should come with a label that reads FURTHER ASSEMBLY REQUIRED...
...wings of wax? The modern-day version is Barry Sternlicht, the highflying CEO of Starwood Lodging Trust, which is in a vicious proxy contest this week with Hilton Hotels for control of ITT Corp. By topping Hilton's offer with a $10.2 billion bid for ITT, Sternlicht has thrust himself into what had been a very personal battle between Hilton CEO Stephen Bollenbach and ITT boss Rand Araskog--and thus into the public spotlight. Sternlicht is a Wall Street darling. His stock, including dividends, has soared 86% in the past year. But even for a darling, the heat of bright...