Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Hart's problems took on a new dimension when his old nemesis, the Miami Herald, reported that Hollywood Video Mogul Stuart Karl, distributor of Jane Fonda workout tapes, had paid $15,802 of Hart's campaign expenses in 1984, despite an explicit limit of $1,000 on individual campaign contributions. The paper also reported that Karl picked up the tab for private jet flights, funded an aide who has been working full time for Hart, and agreed to settle an unpaid $96,000 loan to Hart for 10 cents on the dollar...
...Glass Menagerie. A TV production arm will make 41 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The company's Northfork division will finance five films produced by Robert Redford. In partnership with MCA Inc., which owns 49% of Cineplex Odeon, Drabinsky will help run Universal's proposed Florida theme park. Hollywood, star struck by the 39- year-old whiz kid, is whispering that Drabinsky may succeed Sidney Sheinberg, another tough customer, as president and chief operating officer of MCA. "I'm not saying we don't have run-ins," says Sheinberg, "but it's the pushing and shoving of brothers...
Will Drabinsky's pit-bull perseverance play in Hollywood? Already he has tangled with one of the major studios, canceling 140 play dates of Columbia's Leonard Part 6 after the studio "broke its commitment to us" and pulled The Last Emperor from Cineplex theaters. The air thickened with threats, and as of now, Drabinsky says, "the two corporations are not doing business together." Viewing all these skirmishes, one industry solon is impressed but skeptical. "Drabinsky is very bright and articulate," he says, "but he's also very arrogant. Other exhibitors watch from afar as he builds his Taj Mahals...
...Hollywood -- and America -- may be faint of telltale heart. Drabinsky isn't, though. He knows that his toughest competition is himself. Ah, but what if a younger, hungrier showman comes along? No sweat. "If there's a young Garth Drabinsky out there," says Drabinsky, "A) he's welcome to try, and B) I'd probably hire...
...engagingly knotty and self-referential as The Name of the Rose, but instead of monks doubting their faith, here are superheroes weighed down by their creed, caught in a world they never made but that is remaking them, and showing no mercy. Watchmen has been attracting some heavy Hollywood attention. But a book of this scope can only be scaled down and confined on a screen, no matter how lavishly it is adapted. Graphic novels are cinema for the page, but they are already outsizing the medium they have learned so much from...