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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1999 21:59:02 ET XXXXX
BRADLEY CAMPAIGN BANKROLL NEARLY EQUALS GORE'S; TOPS IN CALI AND NY
Democratic presidential runner Bill Bradley has stockpiled nearly as much
cash as Vice President Al Gore, unexpectedly tightening the Democratic
race, according to new campaign finance reports.
Ceci Connolly reports in Friday editions of the WASHINGTON POST that Gore
has spent far more than either Bradley or GOP prince George Bush.
"Although Gore has raised $17.5 million -- about $1 million less than his
campaign estimated two weeks ago -- he had just $9.3 million left, less
than $2 million ahead of Bradley," reports Connolly.
Gore raised about $8.7 million in the past 3 months, but he's spent $6
million.
Connolly: "The bulk of his money went to direct mail firms and consultants
of every stripe -- pollsters, communications gurus, media strategists,
computer experts and fund-raising consultants. The vice president's team
spent about $1 million on catering, including more than $100,000 at New
York's opulent Pierre Hotel."
In Gore-Tech California, Bradley outraised the vice president $1.6 million
to $1 million. In New York, Bradley collected more than twice as much as
Gore, $1.4 million to $597,000.
And Bradley was so strong in New York that he even outdid Bush at the bank!
[Bush raised $1.3 million in NY to Bradley's $1.4 million.]
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WHO IS GOING TO RUN WARNER BROTHERS?
Now that Robert Daly and Terry Semel, the co-chairmen of WARNER BROTHERS,
have decided to kiss Burbank goodbye -- just who is in the running to head
one of Hollywood's biggest studios?
TIME WARNER chair Gerald Levin tells reporters that the decision will be
his.
"I am the CEO," Levin says. "I will think this through."
The Godfather of Wilshire Boulevard Bernie Weinraub writes in Friday's NY
TIMES that speculation for a replacement is centering on Leslie Moonves, a
former head of WARNER BORTHERS television and now president and chief
executive of CBS television, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating
officer of NEWS CORP., Jeff Bewkes, chairman and chief executive of HOME
BOX OFFICE [and Ted Turner pal], Joe Roth, chairman of WALT DISNEY STUDIOS
and others.
Semel and Daly had been considering leaving the studio for some six months,
the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report in fresh editions, but made
their final decision while flying back from Europe together on the
company's corporate jet Sunday night.
"We had 12 hours on the plane together and it was a highly emotional
experience," Semel tells the paper. "We decided we were not going to stay."
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ANGRY BOB WOODWARD PLANNING RESPONSE TO CRITICS
He may be holding at #1 on The List with his superseller SHADOW, but
authorreporterpundit Bob Woodward is set to lash back at his critics in a
soon-to-be published editorial planned for the pages of the WASHINGTON POST.
According to newspaper sources, Woodward is currently at work on a direct
response to an editorial that appeared in his very own paper!
On July 6, writer Geneva Overholser hit Woodward in the POST for his
"unorthodox methods."
Overholser questioned how Woodward "recreates behind-the-scenes events as
if he'd been in the room -- full of detail, characterizations and direct
quotes, much of it unattributed."
She poked: "This causes confusion, and not just for readers wondering who
told Woodward what and why."
To make the case, Overholser pointed out that former Clinton spokesman Mike
McCurry and former White House lawyer Jane Sherburnere have said that
Woodward's constructed conversations involving the First Lady "are
inaccurate."
Woodward, completely angry over the POST editorial, is getting ready to
fight back -- with 800 choice words of his own.
Developing...
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SUNDAY WAR: 'MEET THE PRESS' BEATS 'THIS WEEK' BY AN INCH
Last Sunday morning, Tim Russert topped Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson by
less than 32,000 viewers, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH.
A tight ratings battle has erupted between the two public affairs shows,
with each claiming victory in recent weeks.
The Sunday media church session of July 11, 1999: MEET THE PRESS was No. 1
in total viewers attracting 2.943 million, ABC's THIS WEEK was second with
2.911 million, CBS' FACE THE NATION was third with 2.676 million and FOX's
NEWS SUNDAY was fourth with 1.204 million.
While one senior ABC staffer characterized the latest squeakerrating as a
"statistical tie" -- NBC's media spokeswoman Barbara Levin moved into press
release action declaring a win.
"MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT' WINNING STREAK CONTINUES FOR 51 WEEKS AS
NO. 1 SUNDAY MORNING..." slugged Levin in her AP NEWS EXPRESS sermon.
[Can I get a witness?]
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KUBRICK FILM TO RECEIVE MIXED REVIEWS
The nation's newspaper movie reviewers are all mixed up on the fuss film by
the late Stanley Kubrick.
A pre-release sampling of reviews for EYES WIDE SHUT, obtained through
various publishing sources, shows a split:
The NEW YORK TIMES review, by Janet Maslin, calls EWS "truly the riskiest
film" of Kubrick's career... "a literally spellbinding addition to the
Kubrick canon."
"Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his
epitaph," says Maslin, in a review set to appear in Friday editions of the
TIMES.
Most reviews mentioned in this report are set for Friday release.
In its review, the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD calls EYES WIDE SHUT a bore. It's
"Barry Lyndon goes to an orgy," says the paper.
Kenneth Turan of the LOS ANGELES TIMES says EWS is a "strange, somber and
troubling meditation."
Calling it "better at mood than substance," Turan says the film is "more
European than Hollywood in tone, it's half brilliant, half banal, but
always the work of a master director whose output has gotten increasingly
distant and self-involved over the years -- and not always to our benefit."
The SUN-SENTINEL of South Florida compares EWS to the "Emmanuelle" series,
calling the film "slow, in other words, and pretentious, and
self-consciously artsy... Emperor Kubrick has no clothes, and neither do
most of his actresses. [1.5 stars]"
The SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS says the film says the movie "is great to look
at. It has the creamy, luxe look... and you sense that if you could touch
the screen, it would feel like cashmere."
Bob Strauss of the LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS calls it a "sometimes astounding,
sometimes frustrating" movie.
"EYES WIDE SHUT is the feast of technique, Freudian inquiry and personal
audacity many people might go to it expecting. It also could have used some
judicious pruning, especially in the last act, that one suspects Kubrick
might have done had he not died shortly after completing his first cut."
"This movie is so overly worked out that there's no room for enjoyment,"
says the FORTH WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM.
"Kubrick... couldn't be more out of touch. In his last picture, Kubrick
will have to get by with a shallow mastery of craft."
Developing...
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