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...behind the men and women who had to go, but I don't know the reasons why they had to go and I don't think I care," says Vietnam veteran Warren Quinlan, who is wearing an "Operation Desert Storm" T-shirt given to him at the Bedford Veterans' Administration Hospital from which he was discharged that...
...nine of the 27 fields, and everyone can vote on the four key Grammys (Record, Song and Album of the Year, and Best New Artist). Members are, however, encouraged to vote only in areas where they feel qualified. "I'll vote in pop and rock categories," says songwriter Diane Warren (who wrote Milli Vanilli's Blame It on the Rain). "But when it comes to the Best Polka Song category, I don't vote in that...
Wall Streeters are comforted that some of the smartest investors seem to be confident. Warren Buffett, the Wall Street legend who in a lifetime has turned $9,000 into more than $3 billion, recently bought major stakes in troubled industries. He invested an estimated $250 million in Wells Fargo & Co. and $300 million in Champion International, a paper-products company. Laurence Tisch and his family-controlled Loews Corp. have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into Bank of Boston and Continental Bank. Concludes security analyst Bruce Benteman, who tracks the nation's wealthiest stock pickers: "Everyone thinks our problems...
...movies with characters who have more than one dimension. Big names are no longer a guarantee of a film's success, a development that prompts studio executives to gripe privately that certain stars are overdue for a deep discount, most notably Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Bill Murray, Warren Beatty, Richard Dreyfuss and Nick Nolte. Each commands $3 million to $7 million a movie, but they are simply not attracting enough theatergoers to justify those salaries...
Brownstein walks us through some of the early history: moguls sycophantically pursuing Presidents; Bogie and Bacall barnstorming for Adlai Stevenson; the Hollywood Ten and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; the unholy Jack Pack of Frank Sinatra and J.F.K. (Gary Hart and Warren Beatty being the more cerebral, 1980s version). Much of the book's second half deals with the travails of a coterie of wealthy Hollywood liberals -- from Norman Lear to Rob Lowe -- who are desperate to be taken seriously...