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...hurt that gate was in the title. Watergate. Heaven's Gate. Billy Bathgate. As the production of E.L. Doctorow's best seller went over budget and reportedly out of whack, bathgate is what Hollywood figured the Disney studio would take -- in red ink -- when the film finally opened. Its summer premiere was postponed; last month a new ending was shot (then discarded); stories surfaced of clashes between director Robert Benton and his star, Dustin Hoffman. Oh, and Bruce Willis was in it, so it must...
Quite a few locals took pleasure in the rancorous rumors. For years Disney had been No. 1, but with a bullet of industry-wide resentments aimed at its heart. The studio's bosses were crass, they were meddlers, they were way too successful for way too long: Michael Milkens as movie moguls. Anticipating that Billy B. might be a Bonfire-size bomb, Hollywood went dancing at its favorite spot: on the coffin of a hated rival...
Meanwhile, a surprising number of companies are developing programs to run on the current machines. Among them are reference-book publishers like Britannica and Grolier, magazine publishers like Time Warner and National Geographic, film companies like Lucasfilm and Disney, electronics manufacturers like Sony, Fujitsu and NEC, as well as a long list of software publishers...
...movie library and a stack of press clippings. Because she has been an actress for 25 of her 28 years, she can screen the public record of her childhood. Anyone can. You can re-view her evolution from tadpole to tomboy and beyond: in the Coppertone commercial, the Disney pictures, the sitcoms, Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone. And you can scan the interviews she gave to magazines from age 11 onward. Dear reader, we have in our possession a tape of a lunchroom chat you had in seventh grade. Care to hear what you said? Care to be held...
...work in Disney's Treasury Department has been a great learning experience, but not just in the sense of learning the principles of trading, investing and financing. Above all, I have come away with the realization that finance, and business more generally, can be an unbelievably creative exercise. With the expansion of American businesses into the evolving international marketplace, it will only become more...