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...BLUE STEEL...
Quite a few of these jeremiads are headed for the screen. Producer Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias, Annie) last week acquired film rights to Barbarians at the Gate, a best-selling account of the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest buyout ever. Warner Bros. has paid a sum estimated to be in the high six figures for the privilege of filming Liar's Poker, an I-lived-with- savages expose of the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. And the cameras are ready to roll on the movie version of Tom Wolfe's blockbuster novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities...
...sculpture, made from welded radiators, steel grates and pipes, will be unveiled as soon as warm weather arrives, since its base cannot be installed while the ground is still frozen, Prince said...
Such conditions have stirred a wave of public anger. Dozens of environmental groups have staged demonstrations against dirty steel mills, hazardous chemical factories and suspect nuclear reactors. Even the Kremlin has joined the demonstrations. At last year's Nov. 7 parade commemorating the Russian Revolution, official floats carrying such slogans as GIVE US CLEAN AIR moved through Red Square along with the usual rockets and tanks...
...former merchandising director for Penthouse, Steel rose to production chief at Paramount in 1985. At Columbia she fired a few blanks, notably the $23 million Casualties of War. But she scored major hits with When Harry Met Sally . . . (gross revenues: $92 million) and Ghostbusters II ($112 million), pushing Columbia from last place among the major studios in 1988 to No. 3 last year. Even so, Steel, 43, figured her job was in jeopardy when Sony bought Columbia last September and installed producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters as co-chairmen. She departs with a pay package said to be worth...