Eminentoes/Gold Diggers of '89
Queenan, Joe
EMINENTOES GOLD DIGGERS OF '89 by Joe Queenan W hen environmental activist Joao writers. "Joao's reappearance throws a authors. Montez biographies slated to going to be twiddling it or their...
...34 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1989...
...His body was then "I've already written a hundred severe...
...No fewer than such groups as The Recovery Channel, cia y Vega Pinto, Jonathan ("The Liv- ing and got some of the best people in nine companies have bid for the film the American cable network...
...gold rush among book publishers and had been seriously negotiating with Graham Grass, Herman Wallace, Gar- "We've lined up $53 million in fund-motion picture studios...
...But if I'd had any inkling deliberately "disappearing oneself" to political, moral, and film-distribution Simultaneously, twelve publishing that he was going to come back from avoid death or taxes, is punishable by questions...
...appear this fall will bear such names this fall...
...vying for the rights to the Montez only up to the part where he sees his In the world of truth, he is no more...
...with the rich ichu loam...
...Carnesca-Vitale- miraculous resurrection of the labor With Montez back in the picture, we're brutal demise...
...houses were awarding book contracts the dead like this, I would have signed five years in prison in the foothills of The facts are these: on April 3, 1989, for as much as $2 million to big-name to do that Israeli bus hijacking in- the Andes, where the tawny pupa mixes Montez was felled by fourteen shotgun stead...
...The status of these projects property," fumes Griffin...
...of them for $3 million or more," posed...
...So I say: let's make the movie rights to Joao's story, seven But others are not so kindly dis- movie...
...son thinks this punishment is too local security forces...
...Jon ing Seagull") Wouk, and Alexander the business talking to us about this rights to his life story, while an even Peters, who co-produced "Peter Burncock...
...Besides, I'm we know that the crocodiles ate him...
...vive the attack and has now come lead singer and bassist of the rock Montez back among the living," says Falsa desaparecido, the act of out of hiding has raised profound group B-2...
...Thus, the shocking Massimino-Valvano, a topflight Italian organizer...
...dumped into a crocodile pit...
...If I could do it all over seethes Sid Beck, chairman of Vishnu again, I would probably stay dead...
...Montez biographies slated to going to be twiddling it or their thumbs Alcazar Montez was murdered monkey wrench into everything...
...dallying, a lot of very fine talent is that afternoon...
...The mur- pages, but I don't view this as a waste "In the broader philosophical sense, der instantly transformed him into an of time, because eventually the securi- Joao Alcazar Montez is already dead," international symbol of ecological ty forces will come back and murder reasons The Stinger, who covets the spunk, while spawning a cottage in- Montez properly, and this stuff will still role of the union leader...
...in the foothills of the Andes last Before Montez miraculously crawled as Garcia Gabriel Marquees, Gunter Brock Griffin, chairman of ITN spring, the killing set off a veritable out of the crocodile pit, the foundation Green, Irving Shawn, Maria Llama, Productions, shares Beck's anger...
...raw data...
...mother raped and murdered at age 12 he lives on only in the cold world of "I am holding nine offers for the anyway...
...We're talk-dozen authors have contracted to write O'Toole: Live in Rwanda" and "High has now been cast into doubt by the ing Streisand, Minnelli, River Phoenix...
...But one perblasts, believed to have been fired by Another author is more sanguine...
...In our hearts, dustry of publishers and movie studios be fresh," he explains...
...seriously suing the foundation for faisa news that Montez managed to sur- production company...
...one author...
...I'm sorry for all the trouble I have says Jorge Mindao, head of the Joao "If Montez didn't buy the farm right caused," says Montez, who has now Alcazar Montez Foundation, a con- off the bat, it was his duty to haul gone into hiding because of numerous federation of ecologists, peasants, himself out of that croc pit and get to death threats from European publishand aspiring West Ecuadoran screen- a Reuters wire as soon as he could," ing houses...
...But Joe Queenan is a senior editor for Productions...
...and The Stinger, "Of course we're all glad to see Joao desaparecido...
...books about the labor organizer's Plains Mandrill...
...story...
...Because of his dilly- the crocs simply weren't very hungry Forbes...
Vol. 22 • October 1989 • No. 10
