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...only surprising element in this family melodrama was Paramount's public airing of its displeasure - as if it wanted to sour all of Hollywood on Tom Cruise, and, by extension, other crazy or cranky stars, of which there are plenty. Since Redstone is not known for shooting from the lip, I'd guess that he, and perhaps other moguls, may be trying to tell its priciest talents that the era of $25 million paydays for a single picture - or the sort of star-studio deal that is lucrative only for the star - is over...
...Hollywood can't suddenly mind if its stars make occasional fools or louts of themselves. And Paramount can't find much fault with Cruise's "recent conduct"; he's done nothing lately but deprive tabloids of his and Katie's baby pictures. This time, it is about the money. Cruise, the studio had decided, is more trouble than he's worth. His shenanigans, they compute, have diluted his box office clout. Not morals or ethics. Simple arithmetic...
...problem: Hollywood is an international enterprise, and comedy is a local vintage that usually doesn't travel well. Sandler's movies make from 60% to more than 80% of their income in North America. Even The Wedding Crashers, a comedy with presumed appeal beyond our borders, took in only about a quarter of its revenue overseas. Comedy is what's lost in translation...
...dominate the world market, Hollywood doesn't need comedy stars. It needs action stars, movie stars. Somebody like Tom Cruise. For ages, that somebody has been Tom Cruise. Beyond him, what is there? Tom Hanks - a movie star, but not an action star. Johnny Depp - a wonderfully eccentric actor, but a star only as Jack Sparrow. Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe - they are, relatively speaking, minority tastes. Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood - together, they're 140 years...
...successor sent a government plane to retrieve him. For the first time in a decade, Clinton was a mere spectator to a global crisis. Powerlessness did not sit well with him, recalls an aide who was with him on the 28-hour ride home. He considered pulling together his Hollywood friends for a big benefit, but it turned out that was already being arranged before he landed. So he started looking for beyond the obvious, for something that would make both a difference and a statement. Within a few weeks, he and former Senator Bob Dole...