Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money back quickly. This means recycling the familiar into the surefire: 1980's biggest hit was The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas' sequel to Star Wars. It means signing box-office stars at huge salaries: Burt Reynolds pulled in a reported $5 million for The Cannonball Run, Barbra Streisand $4.6 million for All Night Long. Directors are stars too: Francis Ford Coppola was offered $3 million to direct One from the Heart. Says Director Martin Scorsese, 38: "We're working ourselves right out of jobs. I'm concerned that the industry is being destroyed...
Columbia's Price frets that the studios are "run by the three A's: accountants, attorneys and agents." Stan Kamen, who represents Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Michael Cimino and a dozen other heavyweights, and whose William Morris Agency is sent 2,500 scripts a year, counters that "ex-agents are running major studios. They were packagers. They know how these deals are made. Half the Hollywood movies today are packaged or semipackaged by agents." Diller agrees ruefully: "This town is Deal City. Do you know the amount of time spent on deals instead of what the movie...
With Oscar night approaching, the mind begins to swim in superlatives. This new comedy, starring Gene Hackman as a middle-aged man shadowboxing an identity crisis and Barbra Streisand as the kooky love interest, is a film of firsts and worsts, leasts and mosts...
...confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their boy's latest efforts two of the year's hottest records. Love on the Rocks, a typically canny Diamond ballad, is currently No. 2 on the charts, while the album it comes from, The Jazz Singer, is fifth among...
...producer and director pick the stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds...