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...wouldn't dare say this in their presence -- if you're smart, you won't invite them to the same planet -- but Steven Seagal and Spy magazine have a few things in common...
...Steven won't talk, on or off the record," says a Seagal spokesman. Neither will Ovitz. And Warner Bros. publicity chief Robert Friedman will say only that Seagal is "an extremely cooperative filmmaker and actor who's a pleasure to do business with." But on April 16, when Connolly was still compiling his article, the star filed a slander suit against the writer and Robert Strickland, a former Seagal friend and Connolly's main source. According to Seagal's attorney, Martin Singer, Strickland had been harassing and defaming the actor. Singer contends that Connolly, in his interviewing...
Seagal used to enjoy hinting mysteriously about the "special work and favors" he did for "many powerful people" in Asia in the '70s. Sounds suitably spooky. "Steven likes to be at the cutting edge of the unsaid truths about 'how the world works,' " says director Andrew Davis (Above the Law, Under Siege). "He enjoys that kind of stuff . . . He tries to live it." But Strickland and Gary Goldman, an ex-mercenary who worked on a Seagal script before falling out with the star, have insisted that Seagal purloined these life-or-death exploits from actual agents. Writer Alan Richman addressed...
Connolly has other hairy charges: that Seagal was a bigamist when he was courting his current wife, actress Kelly LeBrock; that two female aides were paid to keep quiet about his sexual harassment of them; that among his friends are kinfolk of various godfathers and gonifs. "Steven likes to hang out with the underworld of espionage," says J.F. Lawton, who wrote Under Siege, "and maybe also of crime. But I don't see Steven rubbing anyone out. And if you have Michael Ovitz behind you, you don't really need...
When Apple Computer co-founder Steven Jobs burned out 10 years ago, the Silicon Valley company brought in marketing maven John Sculley. Now it is Sculley who has apparently flamed out. He has stepped down as CEO, but will stay on as chairman to focus on new business opportunities. His decision came a week after Apple warned Wall Street that a price war had seriously peeled its profits. Sculley had grown aloof, spending considerable time in Washington...