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Alas, a career full of lost skirmishes with the moguls proved that even Welles couldn't shake Hollywood free of its romantic realism. It held then; it holds today. Except that now the old glamour has atrophied into formula: boy's adventures and ghost stories and lady-in-distress thrillers. When was the last time a Hollywood picture moved anyone to exclaim, "Well, I've never seen that before!"? Perhaps surprise is not on the menu of today's moviegoers. They want reassurance, domestic fairy tales come true, not the astonishment that Jean Cocteau demanded...
Paramount can use the help. Ghost turned box offices into cash cows, but the studio remains a flophouse, home to such crowd displeasers as The Two Jakes and The Godfather Part III. What about rumors of a Paramount-NBC merger? | Nonsense, says Paramount chief executive Martin Davis -- at least for the near term...
...break happened none too soon. Martins took over running the company at George Balanchine's death in 1983, and he has had the ghost of the great choreographer shadowing his every move. He tried to put his personal stamp on City Ballet with his American Music Festival in 1988, but the grand effort was a failure...
...winner last week of an intensive five-year competition for | the richest prize in the history of military procurement: a contract for 650 jets costing nearly $100 million apiece. To be built by Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics, the YF-22 beat out the YF-23 Gray Ghost, a Northrop- McDonnell Douglas project, for the honor of succeeding the venerable F-15 Eagle, now more than 15 years old. The full cost of the new Advanced Tactical Fighter, stretched out over more than two decades, could exceed $95 billion in today's dollars -- $32 billion more than the contract...
...HATE HAMLET. Nicol Williamson may really be John Barrymore's ghost -- he looks, sounds and swashbuckles like him as the bravura otherworldly mentor to a young TV star turned tragedian in this slight but fetching Broadway comedy...