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...says Sheinberg. "I share the view of the world that they'll have great children. I also know that the reality is that 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce. So, we'll all wait and see." This happens all the time in show business--when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924, Samuel Goldwyn had already been forced out of the company. At DreamWorks, Katzenberg is a man with a mission; the other two are in it for the fun, which could wear thin quickly. Spielberg's plans to move to New York City...
Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises. Few readers probably know that Samuel Goldwyn once offered Freud $100,000 to write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their...
...evening's "official" party, thrown by the Samuel Goldwyn Co. to celebrate the premiere of its film Golden Gate, was noisy and crowded and located in one of the area's poshest ski lodges. But as usual, the serious action didn't begin until later, at the unofficial afterparties. The hot ticket that night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (pop. 4,468), was a bash thrown in a rented condo by the William Morris talent agency and 20th Century-Fox. Actually, invitations were hardly needed; anybody who could find a parking spot on the clogged, snow...
...would probably not otherwise see or pay much attention to. Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation at Morton's." Observes Ira Deutchman, president of Fine Line Features: "As irritating as it is to have the place swarming with Hollywood folks, I can't see how that's a negative. Without them, Sundance would be a marginalized event...
...certainly is a lively venue for dealmaking. At least four films picked up distributors during this year's festival: Go Fish, a lesbian comedy (to be released by Goldwyn); Spanking the Monkey, a startling drama about incest that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps...