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...obese white male behind the wheel of the ancient white Cadillac began to shout racist slurs both at the driver and the man standing in the parking space...
Hershman, 35, never made it to the Los Angeles suburb where he lived with his wife and two kids. Exhausted, he fell asleep behind the wheel and slammed into a telephone pole. His death last month has prompted many professionals in the world's most glamorous industry to call for an end to the grueling hours that are now the norm behind the scenes--a problem that has become even more endemic as studios rush to complete the megabudget "event" movies currently in vogue...
...kind of limit to the grind. "I'd rather have a little less work and a little more of a life," he says. Ed Gutentag, another Titanic veteran, is one of many crew members who say Hershman's death hit home because they have caught themselves dozing at the wheel. "I smack myself in the face as hard as I can to stay awake," Gutentag says. "But the big picture is, What value do we put on our lives? I don't want to die because I've worked too many hours...
After a calamitous decade of billion-dollar losses and misdirected diversification, General Motors Corp. is attempting to reinvent the wheel. In the 1920s, its chairman and creator, Alfred P. Sloan, decreed, "General Motors will be known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...
...Tombstone. On that night in Australia, says Noyce, "he was already acting the role of the Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent. Over a fire that evening Noyce asked Kilmer for his ideas about The Saint. "By the time he finished," Noyce recalls, "the sun had come...