Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little like playing up in Canton or Potsdam," Tomassoni says, referring to the similar smalltown atmosphere surrounding St. Lawrence and fellow ECAC rival Clarkson in the frozen north of upstate New York. "But our kids like playing in front of enthusiastic crowds like that, whether at home or on the road--these are the kinds of games they live to play...
...commit, Columbia wouldn't approve the budget -- Cohn did not quietly throw his weight around and fix everything, Ovitzishly. "Mike ((Nichols)) would try to reach Sam," recalls the source, "and he'd have left the office for the night. And Mike couldn't just call ((Columbia chairman)) Mark Canton and yell at him himself." That's what superagents...
...calls over the weekend from people gloating," says a studio head, chuckling over his faxed copy of the disappointing Last Action grosses. "I never knew there were so many vicious people." The same executive helpfully pointed out that Last Action Hero is really the "first big picture" developed by Canton at Columbia, thus denying him credit for A Few Good Men and Groundhog...
...Sound philosophical. As Canton says, the movie business is "cycular." * And as his more eloquent boss Guber says, "Failure is not the end game -- it is an almost inevitable cul-de-sac on the road to success...
...Columbia, next week the studio is releasing In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood's entertaining, hugely commercial thriller, which will help the bosses forget this bad patch -- Arnold? Arnold who? -- and turn them back into blithe motion-picture geniuses, their jobs safe. "Remember," says an executive who knows Canton and Guber, "Guber is inextricably tied to this guy." Inextricably? "Yes," the bigwig confirms. "For a while, anyway...