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Proved Tough Sledding : Movies: Despite being dropped by
Columbia and two directors, 'Cool Runnings,' the film about
Jamaican bobsledders, makes it across the finish line.   "Cool
Runnings" is one fish-out-of-water story that may have never
been made if it wasn't true.  "I promise you, as a studio
executive, it never would have gotten made. No way," said "Cool
Runnings" producer Dawn Steel, at one time president of Columbia
Pictures and earlier production president at Paramount. "I mean,
Jamaican bobsledders? That kind of oxymoron says it all," Steel
laughs now on the eve of the film's nationwide opening Friday.
And, actually, at several points along its rugged course to the
big screen, it looked as if the movie might never make it across
the finish line.  It was five years ago that Steel was watching
the 1988 Winter Olympic games, when the Caribbean island of
Jamaica entered two bobsled teams in competition at Calgary, one
that crashed out, the oth