Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McNally's Texas family, his father Hubert was a wholesale beverage distributor; mother Dorothy worked as an accountant. In school, Terrence's passion was opera. "An Ursuline nun played records for us," he says, "and I loved it from the start." He is a noted opera prince -- a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera radio quiz -- with a huge record collection: "I could never play it all in my lifetime." From this fascination came his higher- than-camp opera fantasia, The Lisbon Traviata (1985), and a play in the works, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), about Bellini...
...donated $25,000 to the Dinosaur Society. (In return the society renamed the oldest known ankylosaur "Jurassosaurus nedegoapeferkimorum "; part of the second word is an acronym of the surnames of the film's cast.) Now he is marketing it. His outfit, Amblin Entertainment, and Universal Pictures, the film's distributor, have signed deals with more than 100 companies (including Kenner, Sega and Milton Bradley) to peddle more than 1,000 Jurassic Park products, from action figures and video games to calendars and candy. If your kids aren't dino-maniacs now, they will be, Spielberg hopes, by the time school...
...money game. Starting with $5 million in capital in 1987, the company has parlayed that stake into control of 10 companies in 35 countries with about $5 billion in revenues a year. The firm's holdings range from Caterair, America's biggest airline catering concern, to a book distributor and the former aircraft division of military contractor LTV. According to Rubenstein, the firm's well-heeled investors have raked in returns of up to 46% a year...
...unexpected citation -- for a tender acting turn by a first-time performer in an inexpensive ($5 million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding...
...others, the single market seems a sham. "German veterinary rules say poultry cannot be imported with heads, feet, hair or innards," said George Kastner, the country's leading food distributor. "But the French would not think of buying it any other way." A unified market has not changed the German rules, but now inspections take place on Kastner's premises. He had to spend $62,000 for new software to calculate value-added tax, which is now done in-house. "The single market has merely pushed the border inland," he said. "Brussels bureaucrats want to know how many kilos...