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According to Steven Rosenberg, a senior analyst with Paul Kagan Associates, an investment firm based in Carmel, Calif., the key to any studio's continuing movie dominance is its ability to extract follow-up value from big hits. There, Mancuso and Paramount are acknowledged masters; one Paramount executive calls the studio's Star Trek rights a "family treasure." Mancuso is encouraging Paramount to sign exclusive contracts with proven money winners like Comedian Murphy, and to promote greater in-house production. Says he: "You can't leave the fortunes of the studio to outside forces." Concurs a former Paramount executive...
...breaking study." The most exciting news on the hyphen front is that adventurous journalese users, like late-medieval theologians, are experimenting with new forms, to wit, multihyphen adjectives. So far, "actor- turnedpolitician," which can be found just to the left of Clint Eastwood's name in any story about Carmel, Calif., is the most beloved two-hyphen entry, while "state-of-the-art " is such a successful three-hyphen innovation that it may be used several times a week without risking reproof from an editor. Though of lower wattage, nonhyphenated modifiers also count for something in journalese. Since "buxom blond...
...ahead, make his day. In the roles of mayor of Carmel, Calif., Marine Sergeant Tom Highway and just plain Clint Eastwood, he is far too busy acting, directing, producing and running a town to take any flak. Not even from the U.S. Army. Seems that in his latest film, Heartbreak Ridge, he plays a lifer who won a medal in a bloody Korean War battle but who is now going through some rough times both in and out of the service. The Army refused to cooperate with the production because of script problems, so Eastwood sold it to the Marines...
Although the new mayor promised to tackle Carmel's No. 1 problem, tourist parking, he may first have to deal with the tourists, who are expected to jam city council meetings. "We'll encourage nonresidents to stay away," Eastwood quipped in his best tough-guy fashion. "Maybe with a two-by-four with a nail...
More traditional, though by now epidemic, is the celebrity candidate. In 1986 alone, there will be one Love Boat star, two Kennedys and a perfect-game pitcher (Jim Bunning, Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets, June 21, 1964) running for Congress. Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. (1 sq. mi., no street addresses, 67 art galleries, 40 jewelry stores) and won in a walk. And there have been near misses: in the past year, we have come close to seeing Harry Belafonte run for the Senate in New York, and Charlton Heston and Fess Parker...