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...male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth marketing campaigns. That's why this summer, except for the behemoth sequels, looks to be the most pacific in recent movie history. The moguls would rather crank out a succession of $12 million teen-targeted comedies and pray that one or two will hit the mark...
Highway experts often blame such conditions on the unexpectedly heavy pounding delivered by American traffic, especially from behemoth 18-wheelers. Many U.S. roadways carry three or even four times their design weights. "Nobody in their wildest imagination predicted these load factors," says federal highway administrator Thomas Larson...
...score, as well, has an overabundance of the customary novelty songs ("Big D little a double l a s") and robust group numbers set in town squares. But the show achieves absolute emotional believability in the performance of the title role by Spiro Malas, a baritone behemoth who does not stint either the character's crudeness or his virtue. When he stands alone, singing of his needs, the patina of the period slips away and what remains is timeless...
...movie budget shouldn't interest moviegoers; they pay the same ticket price for the cult hit Poison as they do for Godfather 3. But Hollywood went haywire last summer with action adventures, leaving the genre in a deep hole. And from that abyss crawls this year's budget behemoth, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a $14 million jet as his salary, but even if he had worked for free, the movie would have cost more than $80 million, or about five times what the original Terminator brought its distributor. The early word is that...
...appetite for acquisitions made Kohlberg Kravis Roberts the top takeover firm of the 1980s, but the no-deal '90s seemed to have stymied the buyout behemoth. Last week, however, KKR showed that it remains a powerful takeover force. In a deal that would give KKR a substantial interest in magazines, the firm led a partnership that included several former officers of the Macmillan publishing and information-services company in a tentative agreement to pay more than $600 million for nine U.S. publications owned by debt-laden media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The KKR group would acquire such titles as Seventeen...