Word: version
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams said one of HUCTW's top goals for the coming months is to ensure that the final contract version reflects the substance of the recent negotiations...
...asked the court for a permanent injunction, on which the court is expected to rule this week, to prevent Guber and Peters from working for anyone else. Warner contends that Guber and Peters are responsible for more than 50 of the studio's current projects, including the film version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Sony and the two producers are countersuing for $100 million, charging Warner with fraudulently denying that it had an oral arrangement to release Guber and Peters from their contract and with trying to sabotage Sony's Hollywood ventures...
Friday the 13th bears even less resemblance to the infamous, inexhaustible series of slasher films for which it is named. The TV version is another anthology show, its stories linked by an antique shop whose objects were cursed and sold to unsuspecting customers. Each week three continuing characters try to retrieve one of the objects before it wreaks its supernatural havoc. That serviceable premise provides the excuse for segments that range from old horror chestnuts (the ventriloquist controlled by his dummy) to spooky original tales (two abused children lure playmates into an evil playhouse...
...reported $2 million (or 284 million yen) from the Fujisankei Communications Group. Jimmy Carter was in Nashville instructing listeners on how he wrote his books. Richard Nixon huffed off yet again to China after disconnecting his AT&T phone service because the company was sponsoring the TV version of The Final Days, last weekend's account of the end of Watergate and Nixon's presidency. Gerald Ford was at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, of all places, addressing a conference called "Farewell to the Chief," a discussion of life after the White House. Expenses paid, of course...
Outside the tan stucco shoe-box house in a dusty corner of Soweto, bands of shouting youths draped the black, green and gold banner of the outlawed African National Congress over the driveway. Others hoisted a smaller version up a makeshift flagpole atop the roof. Inside, Walter Sisulu, 77, the liberation organization's former secretary-general, conferred by phone with the A.N.C.'s exiled leaders in Lusaka, Zambia. Then he walked across the street to an Anglican church that had been transformed into a meeting hall. Hundreds of supporters were gathered there, celebrating Sisulu's release from prison after serving...