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...chums will have to keep working -- and praying -- to make their studio flourish. Huge investments in scripts, real estate and a large staff are always vulnerable to the fickleness of the marketplace. Such ambitious outfits as First Artists, Orion Pictures, the Ladd Company and Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios all came and, sooner or later, went under. With the iffy exception of TriStar, formed in 1982, no successful major studio has started from scratch since Disney in the 1920s...
...mean to imply that Arafat ordred the kindapping he is responsible for controlling terrorist activities in the self-rule areas of Gaza and Jericho. It is his negligence that has allowed Hamas to flourish over the past several months, and the murder of Sergeant Waxman is a direct result of Arafat's irresponsible conduct...
Some competition will exist for the casino. The only other gaining center in New England, the Pequot tribe's Foxwoods in Ledyard, Conn., is far away, but it is the largest grossing casino in the world. Madison says he is confident business at the Wampanoags' casino would flourish...
...True Romance and Natural Born Killers, two Tarantino scripts with identical itineraries (Bonnie and Clyde going to hell in a hot rod), knives skate across faces and guns blow fishbowl holes in stomachs. When a tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom or get out of the way. Thus does he make the viewer a co-conspirator -- and sometimes, as at Lincoln Center, a victim...
McHale is confident that his new, healthier food business will flourish. "We are interested in the pizza business, it's a great location and we have experience in Harvard Square...