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Traffic was light on the north-bound lane and neither Zerros Zachary nor his Cessna 15 single-engine two-seater was damaged, said Mary Culver, spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration...
...Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more to recruit Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, who had never headed a major film company, to run the acquisitions. Next, Schulhof popped for a $175 million make-over of Columbia's movie lot in Culver City, California, and threw in daily deliveries of fresh fruit and flowers to studio executives. Peters was forced out in 1991, and Guber followed three years later. With little more than a string of box-office flops to show for the spending, Sony had to write off $2.7 billion last...
...colleagues are convinced that Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles, never sleeps. Ressner ranges tirelessly from the executive suites of Burbank and the sound stages of Culver City to the tables down at Mortons and Spago. He has knocked back rounds of tequila with Oliver Stone, strolled the wild streets of Amsterdam with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and watched as many as five movies in a day. "He's the Jerry Rice of the Hollywood beat," says Jordan Bonfante, chief of our Los Angeles bureau. "Like the San Francisco 49er wide receiver, he'll catch anything...
...Sony Corporation of America did Hollywood better than Hollywood. In the company's postmodern Manhattan headquarters, designed for AT&T by architect Philip Johnson, the sushi bar in a private corporate dining room had a tiny stream running through its marble counter. The $100 million makeover of Sony's Culver City studio lot included pillars adorned with elaborate murals. A fleet of corporate jets sat in the hangar, and fresh cut flowers were delivered daily to executives. The corporate culture seemed to say that to pamper is to prosper...
...night, Culver said, many of the trenchescan be covered, restoring full access to thestreets for both pedestrians and automobiles...