Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Entertainment shows, meanwhile, are facing a cost squeeze. Hollywood producers, who must negotiate with the tight-fisted networks over fees to cover their production costs, are avoiding shows with elaborate action scenes and expensive locations (partly because such shows are doing poorly on the rerun market). "I sit in on development meetings," says Harris Katleman, president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. "I don't let someone develop a Star Wars. It would be crazy. We don't do westerns either, and we don't do big shows that require locations, car crashes and lots of stunts...
...stars do have certain hierarchical rights. In the final sequence, where Lilah and Steve must duel onstage over a TV contract, his routine is muted and cut to clear the way for her star turn. And she gets to make all the interesting moral choices. But that is just Hollywood housekeeping -- neatening up after the picture has been stolen...
There are several ways to go with that situation. An old-time Hollywood screenwriting team might have used it for romantic comedy; there is a "cute meet" lurking in it. Hitchcock might have found in it the premise for suspense; it blends the quotidian and the voyeuristic in a way he would have liked. The young Woody Allen might even have made a farce...
Tooling around Washington in his black stretch limousine and sporting a snow- white pompadour, Herbert Haft, 68, may look more like a Hollywood agent than a predator who strikes terror in the hearts of corporate executives. But the roster of giant retailers -- including the May department stores, Dayton Hudson and Safeway -- shaken up by his Dart Group (1987 revenues: $406 million), based in Landover, Md., has earned Haft and his eldest son Robert, 35, Dart's president, a reputation as two of the most feared raiders on the roiling retail scene. Just ask the 2,257-store Kroger grocery chain...
...Lana Turner sensation, a blue-eyed Everyboy who could appeal to conservatives, baby boomers and women alike. But Quayle may turn out to be the Marion Davies of the 1988 campaign; like the young, little-known comedienne William Randolph Hearst tried to impose on the public as a Hollywood glamour queen, Quayle does not fit the grandiose role that has been foisted upon...