Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flap has masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls...
Cinema: In Hollywood when a movie like Speed or Wolf is sick, there's only one thing to do: call a script doctor...
Until he was ousted last week, chairman Stephen Wolf was arguing that layoffs would be required to help put the carrier firmly in the black. Wolf's track record makes his prognosis hard to ignore. He strengthened the airline considerably during his six years at the helm, aggressively expanding United's worldwide route system, adding key gateways like Chicago-Tokyo -- now the airline's most profitable route -- all the while cutting costs by about $1 billion annually over the past three years. Wolf's determination to demand deep new pay cuts and layoffs, which might have triggered a bitter...
...Rudnick wrote the original script for Sister Act and the final version of The Addams Family, but his name was on neither film. Carrie Fisher did a polish on Sister Act, but her work was anonymous, as it was on Hook, Made in America and Lethal Weapon 3. On Wolf, Wesley Strick's surgery earned him co-author credit; Elaine May's consultation was a secret known only to all Hollywood...
Strick took over Wolf from novelist Jim Harrison, and Batman Returns from the brilliant Daniel Waters (Heathers). "Sometimes I feel like a burglar," says Strick. "It's like being invited to someone's house for a week and rifling through their drawers. Being assigned to rewrite a script by a really good writer, you may think that all you're doing is taking this wonderfully idiosyncratic thing and homogenizing it into a 'Hollywood' movie. But sometimes, after two or three years and three or four rewrites, the original writer can get ground down and fed up. Personalities can get flinty...