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Danny Glover, star of "Lethal Weapon," testified Wednesday that stuntman Dar Robinson, who bled to death during the filming of a movie in 1986, was "one of the world's greatest stuntmen." Glover's testimony came during the fourth week of a trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in which Robinson's widow is suing three movie production companies for damages in connection with the stuntman's death. Robinson died in November, 1986, while making the movie "Million Dollar Mystery."

Danny Glover, star of "Lethal Weapon," testified Wednesday that stuntman Dar Robinson, who bled to death during the filming of a movie in 1986, was "one of the world's greatest stuntmen." Glover's testimony came during the fourth week of a trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in which Robinson's widow is suing three movie production companies for damages in connection with the stuntman's death. Robinson died in November, 1986, while making the movie "Million Dollar Mystery."

When Maxicare Health Plans emerges from federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, among the sure winners will be Chairman and Chief Executive Peter J. Ratican and his top management team. The relative swiftness of the reorganization will enhance the management team's reputation, said Chris Street, managing director of Seidler Amdec Securities' group, which specializes in bankruptcy stocks and bonds. "I hope that Peter and Gene (Chief Financial Officer Eugene L.

A drawing showing a female praying mantis devouring her mate was tacked to a bulletin board last week at Filmation's headquarters in Woodland Hills. The cartoon factory's name was written on the unlucky male to symbolize the studio's death Feb. 3, when it was closed after being sold by its parent, Group W Productions, for about $30 million to a French television consortium.

In August, 1986, Jose Menendez, former chief operating officer of RCA/Ariola, was brought in to run International Video Entertainment, then in Woodland Hills, which was in the business of buying the video rights to feature films. Unfortunately IVE wasn't making a profit. Less than a year later Menendez's task was complicated when IVE bought an interest in Lieberman Enterprises, a Minneapolis outfit that delivers video and music software to big retailers.

Long before "Batman," before "E.T.," before "Star Wars," and even long before "Jaws," there was "The Exorcist." Buzzing with word of Linda Blair's head spinning full circles on her neck and those repulsive streams of green vomit, moviegoers lined up on the streets of 1973 America like never before, just for the chance to feel their stomachs turn flip-flops in the dark. "The Exorcist" broke house records in theaters everywhere. In some towns, fevered fans shattered glass doors to get in.