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...firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped up by Eisner back...
...wonder that Anne Heche is slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing...
...news first: Anne Heche is a completely persuasive object for Harrison Ford's (or any other male heterosexual's) attentions. Actually, this is no news at all--not to anyone who has seen her work in movies as various as Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog and Volcano. In them Heche established the fact that she's good in crises, vulnerable yet capable, not someone the ravening male ego can walk all over, yet supportive when the crunch comes...
...always there to fight the bad monsters. At the end of one movie, a small boy waved farewell, plaintively calling, "Godzilla. Thanks a lot." The beast acknowledged him in a silent goodbye. It touched my heart. And in Godzilla 85, when the beast was lured into a volcano, I cried and thought, This cannot be the end of Godzilla! Now Hollywood has created a real monster--a souped-up, emotionless, dinosaur-like killing machine sans the charisma of the original Godzilla. Shame on you, Hollywood! What's next? A sequel to E.T. with the lovable little alien transformed into...
...Clinton officials are now considering what action to take if Suharto fails to implement key aspects of the bailout plan. Tough love may be necessary, but it's a difficult call when this mainstay of U.S. Asia policy sits atop a volcano of social unrest...