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Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome...
Softcon also attracted firms with new schemes for distributing software. An industry that transmits information electronically in microseconds has always found it strange that its products are delivered to stores like books or records. Softyme Express, a San Francisco firm, last week announced an agreement with computer distributor Micro D to place machines in retail outlets that will let customers receive programs on blank discs over telephone lines. Two other firms, Romox, of Campbell, Calif., and Xante, of Tulsa, are testing or marketing similar systems. Nolan Bushnell, the multimillionaire founder of Atari, is even talking about selling software from vending...
...instructor in Transcendental Meditation and a mental-hospital counselor. Little commanded his attention until he impulsively traded in his stereo system for an Apple II computer. Within a few months, he wrote two computer programs that create charts and graphs for businesses and sold them to a software distributor for $1.2 million. With royalties from the programs and backing from venture capitalists, he founded Lotus Development...
Moreover, demand for Villa Banfi's products is developing around the world. The firm now sells wines in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, the Caribbean and Central and South America. Last month Villa Banfi announced that the Mitsubishi Foods Group will be the importer and distributor for Riunite wines in Japan...
...specifications widely available so that the machine could become the industry standard. That tactic has worked so well that PC users are now able to choose from a vast array of programs that run on the machines. Says David Wagman, chairman of Softsel, a Los Angeles software distributor: "The change has been overwhelming. Eighteen months ago, 85% of the software we saw was for Apple and 5% for IBM. Now 29% is for IBM and 26% for Apple...