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With a thud heard round the movie world, Michael Cimino went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward a firing squad. United Artists took a $44 million bath on the film and within a year was absorbed by rival MGM. Now, in a delicious triple irony, Final Cut, a UA executive's memoir of the debacle, wins raves; Ted Turner agrees to buy MGM/UA; and the studio releases...
...sweet it was earlier this month when Elliott Dixon scratched off the concealing film on one of California's new instant-winner lottery tickets and discovered he had won $1,000. How bitter he was when he learned that none of the money would be his to enjoy. All of his winnings were confiscated by the state to go toward payment of a $2,100 child-support debt. Moaned the winner-loser: "I don't mind seeing my debts reduced, but I would have rather made the decision myself...
...Moines-based property and casualty insurer has now decided to adopt a new name. A contest is being held among the firm's 980 employees to suggest the best alternative. The winner will be given $5,000. AID executives have not decided how to modify the firm's logo. Says Evans: "The color might stay the same. The shape might stay the same. It's just that awful word...
...opposite number, though a teammate in this case, the pitcher in whose cause he hit that home run, twice-traded but miraculously redone Lefthander John Tudor, 31. A tip from an old high school teammate is the delightful explanation for his resurrection from journeyman to 21-game winner, though the expanse of the Busch Stadium outfield, not to mention the outfielders themselves, must have had something to do with it. No matter how splendidly he pitches, Tudor seems to have difficulty enjoying it. While Landrum kept singing, "Boy, you should have seen the dugout vibrating; something was in the Cards...
When José Caballero's number came up a winner in California's $2 million Big Spin wheel-of-fortune lottery in Hollywood last week, the East San Jose furniture-store worker provided state officials with two pieces of identification: a driver's license and a relative's immigration card. Caballero, 24, a native of Apatzingán in Mexico's Michoácan state, it turned out, is an illegal immigrant--a fact quickly picked up by local papers and federal officials. "He embarrassed the immigration service," said Arthur Shanks, the agency's deputy district director...