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While Moulin Rouge seemed to pave the way for this film, Chicago has actually been in the works for decades. Soon after the original production opened on Broadway in 1975, director Bob Fosse began planning a movie version. When Fosse died in 1987, says producer Marty Richards, "I took the script, threw it in a drawer and said, 'That's the end of that.'" Then eight years ago, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein wondered what had happened. "He had seen it as a young person and was passionate about it," says Richards. When a revival of Chicago opened on Broadway...
...White House is looking for at least one new member of its economic team who can speak the language of the financial markets and calm them when necessary. "The model is Bob Rubin," said a White House insider of the Goldman, Sachs co-chairman, who headed the National Economic Council (NEC) and then the Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration. Bush advisers say Stephen Friedman, who co-chaired Goldman at Rubin's side, is being courted heavily for the NEC job. But candidates for other spots on the economic team have also been sought among nonfinancial companies. Though Bush recognizes...
Here's how you do it. Start with the essential component: a surround-sound receiver with a center speaker, four satellite speakers and a bass subwoofer. Next, get the right DVD player; artists such as Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant have rereleased classic albums in the Super Audio CD (SACD) or DVD Audio formats, which take full advantage of surround-sound systems. Finally, upgrade your TV. Your old set probably isn't ready for the new high-definition programming (see "I Want My HDTV!"). Once your basic system is in place, you'll be ready to plug and play...
...Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal...
...criticized both Bob Woodward from the Washington Post and Seymour Hersh from the New Yorker, two of the “big-names” in journalism who he said “cavalierly” revealed national concerns “no rational journalist would reveal...