Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair, Columbia is not alone in its problems. U.S. box-office attendance for the first six months of 1986 hit a seven-year low of 488.6 million, compared with a mid-1983 high of 599 million. Even with a strong summer, year-end box-office sales are expected to fall below 1985's $3.75 billion, which was nearly 7% lower than...
...return to the role of producer. If he fails as a member of the Establishment, he jokes, he "still has a day job to go back to." Columbia, though, is betting big that the outspoken outsider has what it takes to turn the studio back into a long-running box-office attraction...
...DEMON BOX...
...immobile and rusting on Kesey's farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore., the vehicle symbolizes the built-in obsolescence of 1960s enthusiasms. The same can be said for Demon Box, a collection of new and previously published magazine pieces about the good old days, departed friends, family, the pull of the soil and the lure of dope. Spruced up and polished, these writings impress and entertain but seem like an attempt to squeeze a few more miles out of a writer who has either run out of gas or has been stalled by too many chemical additives...
...title Demon Box refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow...