Word: dino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave of foreign money comes at a time when U.S. investors have soured on film deals because of several flops among movie start-up ventures. Among them: the studio launched by producer Dino De Laurentiis, which filed for bankruptcy in 1988 after losing almost $200 million in two years, and a similar venture launched by veteran music promoter Jerry Weintraub, which lost $40 million last year after a string of duds that included My Stepmother Is an Alien...
Such a one is the film under consideration -- a Mafia comedy. Already the mind contracts with diminished expectations! Non-Italian actors gesturing rambunctiously, speaking with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted...
Impressing the Top Dino. When dealing with seniors, do not try to dazzle them with your brilliance. "The boss's idea of intelligence is someone who listens to him." Do not tell your boss your personal problems. "Old dinosaurs like the strong, silent types." Stuck with drudge work? Perform first; get out of it later. Otherwise, the boss may bite your head...
First, the hockey player. Dino Ciccarelli, an especially unruly forward with the Minnesota North Stars, was jailed for a day in Toronto for clubbing the Maple Leafs' Luke Richardson twice before punching him in the mouth. Known for stark behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...
...Producer Dino De Laurentiis is known for some oversize movies, among them Conan the Barbarian and the 1976 remake of King Kong. But now the flamboyant founder of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall Street speculators were pouring money into the Beverly Hills-based firm, but it lost $20.5 million during the six months ending in August, thanks in part to such flops as Tai-Pan and King Kong Lives. To raise cash, the company is struggling to find buyers for its library...