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Equally important were the signals Moscow did not send. As the Soviets watched the Ortega campaign unfold, they thought the Sandinistas should steal the opposition's thunder by seconding Chamorro's promise to end the hated ! military draft, but Moscow never communicated its analysis. "We don't interfere in someone else's elections," Pavlov deadpans...
...such movies largely reflects the price that studios pay for the handful of megastars whose presence is expected to guarantee a hit. The top guns include Tom Cruise, who reportedly will earn some $9 million for playing a race-car driver and co-producing Paramount's Days of Thunder. For reprising his role as Nick Nolte's streetwise sidekick in Another 48 Hrs., Eddie Murphy will take home at least $8 million, plus a share of the film's revenues. Arnold Schwarzenegger can count on $10 million for starring in Total Recall, a $50 million-plus sci-fi picture filmed...
...studio decided, five months after the film had been shot, to upgrade the 57 matte-painting backdrops that were used to help create a comic-book appearance. The improved matte work includes twinkling lights and moving boats and cars. Paramount had to frantically accelerate the editing of Days of Thunder to get the film ready for its summer release. The speedup meant that crews had to work around the clock, piling up mountains of overtime. Die Hard 2 had the same deadline problem. Says Birnbaum: "The prints will still be wet, but they'll be in the theaters on June...
MOVE OVER, JESSE. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a moderate black leader, may end up stealing some of Jesse Jackson's thunder. His state party chairman, Paul Goldman, is eagerly mapping out 1992 scenarios, and Wilder's travel plans suggest far more than a mere vice-presidential bid. He has visited California twice in the past two weeks, and is poised to announce a foray into New Hampshire this spring. Can Iowa be far behind...
...Lord "descended upon ((Mount Sinai)) in fire," Exodus records. The Lord gave the Law to Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises perpendicularly out of moonscape and in the autumn and winter months may be surrounded by sudden clouds, thunder, lightning and lashing rains...