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Manhattan supreme court Judge Ira Gammerman holds a vaunted legal position, but what he really wants to do is direct--or so it seemed last week as he presided over a trial in which WOODY ALLEN is suing his former producer, Jean Doumanian, for $12 million he says he is owed for films they made together. At one point Gammerman interrupted Allen's rambling testimony, admonishing, "I'm the director here." When Allen mentioned the year he made his first movie, Gammerman jumped in with the name of the film (Take the Money and Run). Indeed, Allen's testimony would...
WOODY ALLEN filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming that Jean Doumanian, his producer, collaborator and friend of 40 years, bilked him out of profits from his last eight films. Friends of Allen and Doumanian were shocked that the former partners may do battle in court. Industry observers were shocked to discover that there were profits from those films. The suit alleges that Doumanian deprived Allen of his guaranteed 50% share of the gross proceeds from his films since 1993. The eight movies in question (spanning from Bullets over Broadway to Small Time Crooks) grossed $67.1 million...
...York City; and he has punched up the pulchritude level, casting Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore and a re-emergent GOLDIE HAWN (getting a leg up in Paris) rather than more cerebral regulars Judy Davis or Dianne Wiest. "This is different from anything Woody has done before," says producer Jean Doumanian. "Goldie and Woody were magical together." With strings attached, of course...
...splitsville again for Woody Allen -- he's leaving Sony's TriStar Pictures for Sweetland Films, a tiny independent production company. Sweetland is headed by Allen's friend Jean Doumanian, and Allen's sister, Letty Aronson, is a vice president; Doumanian's longtime companion is Jaqui Safra, nephew of the principal shareholder in the Republic New York banking corporation...
When Lorne Michaels left the show after five seasons, along with what was left of the original cast and writing staff, the show lost not only its keenness but its momentum. An interregnum presided over by a talent coordinator who was referred to as the "Ayatullah Doumanian" may have been television's most public and widely publicized embarrassment since My Mother the Car. From 1981 to 1985, Producer Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with...