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...very first film. The Tarzan adventure Greystoke made her the punch line to an industry joke, when her dialogue was dubbed by Glenn Close. It took a complex role as the frustrated wife in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) for the actress to show moviegoers and Hollywood that she was an actress. The Object of Beauty, Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral solidified her status as a go-to gal to ornament the smarter comedies for grownups. But in Crush, MacDowell is the center of the action and the acting. It's her movie...
...hard to imagine that the mudslinging and dirty tricks mentioned in "Inside the Oscar Wars" could have influenced any member of the Academy [SHOW BUSINESS, March 25]. To read that there were malicious smear campaigns behind the awards was disturbing. I believe people in Hollywood care more about the honesty of their performances than they do about media stories on the films. Even if, with my Midwestern mentality, I am misled to believe in the integrity of those who make movies, I prefer to remain as I am. JOANNA J. CHENEY Milwaukee...
...footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting injured before Summer Slam ED MCMAHON Carson sidekick's house infected with toxic mold. McMahon said he would never have known the mold was toxic from the way it tasted MICHAEL OVITZ Hollywood talent czar loses his best account: Robin Williams. His second-best account: Father Hands-to-Himself, the non-molesting priest...
...which scares off many potential investors. Complicating matters in Kirch's case is the company's opaque nature: deals and side deals obscured the true value of parts of the company, which were pledged as collateral for loans. At a press conference last week, executives said that KirchMedia owed Hollywood studios $441 million for rights to films - the first time that debt was disclosed. "The only one with all the figures is Leo himself, who kept them all in his head," said Norbert Schneider, chairman of a German media institute...
...marked an ignominious end for Kirch, who began his career in 1956 by borrowing DM 25,000 from his wife's family to buy the rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada. By the end, Kirch had amassed a film library of 15,000 titles, the largest outside Hollywood. He also owned the broadcast rights to World Cup soccer and a majority of the company that controls Formula One. KirchMedia held a controlling stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media, one of Germany's two commercial television networks...