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By STAFF David Kirkpatrick, Patricia Sellers, Sarah Smith, H. John Steinbreder

(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- JUDGE REINHOLD, 30, co-star of Beverly Hills Cop II, which raked in $100 million in its first 26 days: ''I happen to enjoy taking allowance money from helpless little kids.'' -- JAMES M. BEGGS, 61, former General Dynamics official and NASA administrator, quoting Winston Churchill, after the Justice Department dropped its fraud case against him and the company: ''Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'' | -- ROBERT M. FOMON, 62, departed chairman of E.F. Hutton, on his $4-million severance pay, $612,000 annual pension, and up to seven-year consulting contract at $500,000 per: ''I don't think it's too much money.''