Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even meet with him," Costner says, "because my brother Dan had been in Viet Nam, and I was reluctant to do a film about something that had such impact on his life. In a way, I regret not doing it; it was a wonderful film. But my consciousness was with my brother...
Family is important to Costner. Dan, 38, who received a Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroism in Viet Nam, is in charge of finances at Kevin's company, Tig Productions, named after their grandmother. To take the job, he left a corporate vice presidency. "You wouldn't do this unless it was your brother," Dan says evenly. "And you wouldn't do it unless your brother was Kevin...
...more than $8.5 billion of imports from China, such as clothing, toys and sporting goods. In addition, American corporations poured into China some $3.5 billion of direct investment. Everything from gelatin capsules to computers is churned out in more than 600 joint ventures or wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries (China, Viet Nam, Poland and Hungary are the only Communist countries that permit 100% foreign ownership of businesses operating on their soil...
...tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats the brick business...
...parents may fondly remember the dating shenanigans of Archie and Veronica or the wholesome exploits of superheroes, their children are now being offered a titillating blend of sadism and sex. A stripper was crucified in one issue of Green Arrow. Superman, in a story called Bloodsport, battled a deranged Viet Nam veteran who was shooting people at random on the streets of Metropolis with a gun in each hand...