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Ladling out the largesse might once have been acceptable to studio heads, but the palmy days are past. In the current movie climate, when budgets have soared and revenues are soft, moguls get to wondering if stars are worth the worry. This summer's box-office take is down 10...
Other, more exotic technologies have produced disappointment as well. Videoconferencing has largely flopped as a substitute for business travel because costly systems -- they range up to $20,000 in price -- have failed to transmit clear, crisp images and audio signals. Users complain that they are prevented from swapping notes and...
Robert Mapplethorpe's boys-in-bondage photographs made the right wing snort and paw the ground. But the left has its own kind of puritanism lately, which submits depictions of the human body to a test of political correctness. A 1964 work by Sol LeWitt failed the test of Elizabeth...
That is the proposition being promoted on freeway billboards, along train platforms and in newspapers around New York City this summer. The ads tout a unique new 900-number service called Doctors by Phone, which provides professional medical advice for $3 a minute. Similar campaigns are scheduled to appear next...
It is Thelma who spots a really cute hitchhiker by the side of the road and decides she just has to have him. With him she has great sex for the first time in her life. To him -- he's a convenience-store bandit -- she loses all the getaway money...