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...typical of the shrewd marketing methods Mancuso had championed at Paramount even before he took over as chairman. Top Gun was originally scheduled to open in late May, at the same time as Warner's Sylvester Stallone shoot-'em-up Cobra and MGM's horror flick Poltergeist II. Mancuso instead elected to preview the Paramount entry a week early, then expand its showing in the beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein, Mancuso decided to release Star Trek...
...does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...photographer asked to take her picture. She agreed and -- voila! -- Dalle soon appeared on her first magazine cover, followed last summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting debut in Betty Blue, a steamy art flick by Diva Director JeanJacques Beineix, caused a sensation in France. Dalle is not overly impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting...
Still, this film is such a warm fuzzy bunny compared to the good but aggressive Blue Velvets of the season, it's worth seeing by way of contrast. Definitely a good flick to see with a date. Definitely a flick that'll make you feel okay about life after it's over. Definitely not a foolish choice...
...into the mainstream as writer and director of The Terminator, and it is this picture that film historians and sociologists of the future will watch over and over again, their as-yet-unborn eyes slowly glazing over. It might have been another film altogether, just another cheap sci-fi flick gathering lichen on the UHF channels. But at one point in the pre-production stage Cameron approached Arnold Schwarzenegger--to play the hero...