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Other panelists included scripters of major screen mayhem: Steven De Souza ( Die Hard ); Callie Khouri ( Thelma and Louise ); Miguel Tejada-Flores ( Fright Night Part II ); William Mastrosimone ( Extremities ); Sy Gomberg ( When Willie Comes Marching Home ); moderator Dan Petrie Jr. ( Beverly Hills Cop ); and producer Sean Daniel ( The Mummy ). The audience was packed with worried industry insiders still reeling from President Clinton's just-announced call for a Justice Department/FTC investigation to determine if Hollywood markets violent product to children.
"Things got ugly in Iowa today when Elizabeth Dole suddenly shouted, 'Off the stage, m*****f*****,' and sent George W. Bush reeling, in a scene eerily reminiscent of her husband's 1996 tumble."
The Wall Street Journal sees the Microsoft defense as "reeling," and says the VP with the balky video is the third straight company witness to retreat on the stand from a staked-out position.
Each plane cost $200 million, and Lockheed Martin is reeling from the loss of the sale.
Saturday my study group (go ahead, laugh) met to discuss Doug Henwood's new book Wall Street (I missed this session because I hadn't read the book) and at lunchtime they went to a demonstration in Union Square, that was supposed to be of Latino sweatshop workers, and came away reeling: maybe fifteen people, mostly ancient sectarians and a few young ones, all full of the old rhetoric (a moment of silence followed by a "moment of rage" with raised fists but some people didn't know how to do it, memories of the black athletes' stand at the Mexico City Olympics having faded).