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The recession of 1981-82 put the Steffes further into debt. When they could not get a new $100,000 loan to tide them over, they filed for bankruptcy, reporting liabilities totaling $800,000. While the proceeding was pending, they kept farming, grossing at least $200,000 each year, but...
His first film, Meatballs, was soon followed by a series of others in cluding 1984's top-grossing movie. "Ghostbusters," and Stripes, a parody of life in the Army. More recently he co-wrote the screenplay and starred in "The Razor's Edge," a serious drama.
She is now grossing about $3.5 million per year, and she is proud of never having received either government or corporate grants. Says she: "I'm a believer in the concept that if it's good, the way you'll know it is that people will pay. The bottom line...
DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor...
To mention these commercial risks, though, is to take a Hapsburg Emperor's narrow view of art's bottom line. Amadeus may be a popular film for the same reason it is a good one: it paints, in vibrant strokes, an image of the artist as romantic hero...