Word: yorkin
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...behind this transformation on the tube? A new, iconoclastic generation of creative talents? An insurgent band of reformers from outside the wasteland's preserve? Hardly. If any individuals can be said to be the catalysts they are a pair of tanned and creased Hollywood veterans named Alan ("Bud") Yorkin and Norman Lear...
Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...
...Yorkin sits in the high-tech Los Angeles office of the Feminist Majority Foundation, an organization she co-founded and into which she has poured $10 million. Her worth has been estimated at up to $100 million. The RU 486 "genie" is "out of the bottle," she says. To get it to American women, "we are prepared to do whatever we have...
...middle, until recently, was the drug's producer, France's Roussel Uclaf. Its corporate parent, Germany's huge Hoechst chemical company, feared a pro-life boycott of its American products if it allowed RU 486 to be marketed in the U.S. And Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
...Yorkin may be ignoring a few variables: that sequels often fall on their prats, that Stars Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli have been on a 0-for-ever streak since the original Arthur in 1981, that critics didn't make Who Framed Roger Rabbit a hit, and they didn't break Arthur 2. Still, Yorkin deserves sympathy for getting caught in a zeitgeist warp. Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid...