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Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...
Movies based on popular novels are usually doomed before they start, since millions of readers have already cast and filmed the movie in their heads. And director Clint Eastwood's reticent style is the antithesis of Robert James Waller's romantic tale of middle-age passion. As a result, the film version of "Bridges" is rather different. TIME's Corliss describes a brooding romantic fantasy and a meditation on the anticipation and consequences of passion. Eastwood's generosity as a director and Meryl Streep's remarkable performance, says Corliss, "alchemize literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion...
...from the intelligence committee, made no apologies on the House floor today. "I did what I thought was right," he said, adding that his duty to keep the classified information secret conflicted with his personal morality and his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. TIME national security correspondent Douglas Waller says the probe, the product of two weeks of House negotiations, averts a partisan blowup in Congress: "Everybody's punting it to the ethics committee, which in the past has taken an interminably long time to reach a conclusion." Democrats on the intelligence panel, he adds, had planned to close...
...thousand U.S. dollars had continued to flow to that government without his knowledge. White House officials said Secretary of State Warren Christopher did not know about theCIA programswhen he said on a talk show Sunday that no U.S. money was going to Guatemala. TIME Washington national security correspondent Douglas Waller explains that the CIA, which was ordered in 1992 to drop its covert action in the country, legally maintained several low-profile "liaison" programs that trained Guatemalan officers in intelligence-gathering and counternarcotics. Waller adds: "We have been maintaining an intelligence relationship with a government whose army has the worst...
...Reported by Sandra Burton, Douglas Waller, Mark Thompson/Washington, Barbara Rudolph/New York and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Zagreb