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Talk also has a unique backer. It is co-owned by Miramax, the film studio. This makes for great cross-promotion opportunities. Already, some of Miramax's new home videos feature advertisements for Talk with Brown talking about--what else?--her new magazine! I'm sure Miramax movies will soon find a promoter in Talk, either in advertisements or in exclusive stories. Pretty soon, we'll probably even see a movie with first-issue cover girl and Miramax Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow as Tina Brown in "Talk: The Tina Brown Story." And I don't think it's a coincidence...
...Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, are the efforts of a new band, composed of old rockers trying to re-establish themselves. In the end, that comes down to getting one of them, played by Michael Des Barres, who is exclusively interested in teenyboppers, to sexually service a potential backer, the hilariously voracious Beverly D'Angelo. The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at least a dozen lives...
...Malin, formerly co-president of October Films. "We want to be involved with hip, off-center movies that skew toward younger audiences between 18 and 35." Artisan, which is run by the triumvirate of Malin, longtime agent Bill Block and Mark Curcio, a former consultant to Artisan's majority backer, Bain Capital, rose in 1997 from the ashes of a firm that held video rights to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Total Recall. The company gets its primary income from a film library of 6,600 titles that generates an annual $35 million in cash flow, but it scored...
...exact fund-raising totals by state--though he told USA Today that he could have done better. Asked last week whether Gore or Bill Bradley is more qualified to be President, the current holder of the job parsed Gore's resume, not his leadership abilities. As a bemused Bradley backer noted last week, "It almost makes you wonder whether Clinton really wants Gore...
...boxing functions in a world of individual contractors overseen by state boxing regulators with very uneven records. "Boxing is a segmented, cottage industry," says Saporito, and that leaves it wide open to abuses. The latest legislation, which is named after boxing great Muhammad Ali, has a very powerful Senate backer, Arizona Republican John McCain. But it faces tough going. Last year, though it passed the Senate, the measure failed because time ran out in the House...