Word: hollywood
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Signs of Disney's triumphs are suddenly as conspicuous as Mickey Mouse ears. During the first three months of this year, Disney's movie studio ranked No. 1 in Hollywood, reaping an astounding 30% share of all U.S. box-office revenues, vs. 4% just four years ago. For most of the first quarter, three of the country's top five movies were Disney's: Three Men and a Baby, which has grossed $160 million so far, Good Morning, Vietnam ($110 million) and Shoot to Kill ($30 million). On TV, Disney has a hit sitcom, The Golden Girls; two popular...
Eisner's revival of Disney has made him the current king of Hollywood and the darling of Wall Street. More important, though, is that Disney fans have begun to recognize him as a corporate hero of sorts, a long-awaited, trustworthy heir to Walt. Eisner has established himself as a charismatic, young-dad figure by appearing each week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount...
...gang wars have now become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
Some 300 supercomputers now work at tasks as diverse as ferreting out oil deposits, analyzing muscle structures and creating special effects for Hollywood films. With the spread of supercomputer networks, high-speed computing power is available to anyone with a personal computer and a telephone hookup. "The world will never be the same," says Doyle Knight, director of the John von Neumann National Computer Center in Princeton, N.J. "Soon every industry, every science, every walk of life will in some way be touched by supercomputing...
...film thinks like Redford too: its passionate humanism is laced with wry. For Redford is not only Hollywood's last hero. He is a benevolent movie mogul, using his Sundance Institute to finance noble independent films in the pastoral mode. Alas, most of these films have been lame and prissy. Perhaps one reason Redford made Milagro was to show the young directors at Sundance that a well-meaning film can also be a good movie...