Word: manfully
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard would be crazy to appoint this man president," says Jeffrey Hart, professor of English and a member of the board of directors of The Review. "He is personally unstable. He is a liar...The few faculty members I've spoken to think it's mind-boggling that Harvard is considering...
Even before his latest coup, he was regarded as the most powerful man in Hollywood. Michael Ovitz, the town's No. 1 talent agent, can make or break a movie project or an actor's career. But as the power broker behind Matsushita's acquisition of MCA, Ovitz has reached an international stature that even legendary moguls might envy. "He is the mega-dealmaker," says an industry executive. "Not only on a film-by-film basis, but on the very largest scale of buying and selling studios. That is the most significant thing you can do in Hollywood...
...Ovitz prospered by matching such talent with CAA screenwriters and peddling the stars and stories to studios. But assembling the elements for such hits as Ghostbusters and Rain Man only whetted Ovitz's appetite for even greater power packages. His first real taste of corporate matchmaking came last year when Sony, impressed by his unrivaled Hollywood contacts, tapped him as a consultant for its $3.4 billion acquisition of Columbia Pictures...
What's next for Hollywood's hottest leading man? After the Matsushita deal, Ovitz may be in line to succeed Lew Wasserman as head of MCA. Yet such a move could limit his power, which now encompasses the entire movie business. And he is not yet finished changing the face of Hollywood...
...man who wields power in the country's second largest city is the classic political outsider. Sobchak was a little-known professor of economic law at Leningrad State University until he was elected last year to the Soviet parliament. Then almost overnight, his witty and acerbic exchanges with Mikhail Gorbachev on legal fine points won him national prominence. When Sobchak became chairman of the Leningrad city council last May, the move was hailed as a victory for radical democrats opposed to the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Sobchak is still the most admired politician in his native city -- with...