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...same time, the First Lady plays an up-front, active part in the presidency, from domestic affairs to political strategy to speech writing, bringing to the table two decades of experience and no apologies. In all but foreign affairs, she has emerged as First Adviser, being called in on the spur of the moment to a meeting of 15 senior staff members in late April, for example, to assess the problems of the first 100 days and the defeat of the President's stimulus package...
...improvements, everyone recognizes, require up-front expenditures of money. The trick is fitting them into the budget...
...show has some nice touches. Joel's Jewishness is refreshingly up-front, and it's good to see a few Native Americans on TV for a change. But this domesticated Twin Peaks is too precious by half. In one episode, Joel's friend conjures up an Indian spirit to help locate his father; the town deejay, meanwhile, has his voice stolen by a beautiful girl. One whimsical fantasy per episode, please. The show's patronizing attitude toward small towners is more subtle but just as annoying. One episode makes snide fun of the tavern owner's 19-year-old girlfriend...
...million fiasco starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Other studios, notably Universal Pictures, are stressing "back-end" deals, in which such stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger (Kindergarten Cop) and Tom Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July) receive a cut of ticket sales as opposed to a hefty up-front salary. "If we don't control costs, we won't have much of an industry left," warns Thomas Pollock, head of Universal, whose $40 million- plus Havana died on impact last year despite Redford's starring role. At 20th Century Fox, executives are trying to keep 1991 film budgets...
...Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation was desperate. Losses at the federally insured thrifts whose deposits it guaranteed were running out of control. But neither Congress nor the Reagan-Bush White House was willing in the midst of an election to force an up-front resolution. Danny M. Wall, who oversaw the FSLIC, sought investors from outside the S&L business to pump new capital into the failures but by September had made just 35 deals...