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MOVIE The Anniversary Party "Like a Hollywood home movie...
...thing about Jerry Bruckheimer: he really knows how to blow stuff up. As one of Hollywood's biggest and most durable producers, he blasted through Alcatraz in The Rock, tossed an airliner full of psychos onto the Las Vegas strip in Con Air and destroyed a hurling asteroid in Armageddon. In the 1980s, along with his late partner, the fast-living Don Simpson, he changed the movie business forever with a highly comic, highly charged formula of music, muscles and mayhem. Through sales of movie tickets, videocassettes and sound tracks, he has generated an estimated $11 billion. And now, wouldn...
...those who know Bruckheimer believe he is sensitive to what others say about him; his protective wife Linda has been known to send scathing notes to journalists who treat him badly. Though he won't admit his age ("In Hollywood, they think you're over the hill at a certain point"), he is said to be 55 and seems to be hearing a certain ticking. With Pearl Harbor, he is fighting for respectability and a grown-up audience. The battle began two years...
...head of the studio. When Roth resigned, Disney chairman Michael Eisner demanded an additional $10 million cut. Bay walked. "I wasn't sure we'd get it made," says Bruckheimer. Eventually, he persuaded Bay to return. Finally "green-lighted" at $135 million, the budget was the biggest approved in Hollywood history. "Jerry is the great politician," says Bay, who ultimately brought the movie in at $140 million (not including marketing costs...
...David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, epic pictures with "bigger-than-life heroes, bigger-than-life villains." In 1967, The Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel songs, showed him how to wed pop movies with pop music. In 1970, after a brief career in advertising, Bruckheimer moved to Hollywood. As a fledgling producer, he put Blondie on the sound track of American Gigolo. He chose country music singer Faith Hill for Pearl Harbor because "it's an all-American movie, and she's an all-American artist...