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Central casting has sent the moneymen to help direct the entertainment industry's new wave. They are businessmen who have earned their fortunes in other fields and are now conquering Hollywood. Examples: MGM's Kirk Kerkorian, a onetime airline financier, and Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, who liquidated his energy holdings in order to buy 20th Century...
...reason? Management would rather compromise than allow player rep Marvin Miller to get his hands on black-ink statements that are embarrassingly large. The Yankees, according to a story that will run in New York's Village Voice next week, cleared $6.7 million last season after taxes, and grossed an unbelievable $28 million. Admittedly, they are baseball's most successful club, but consider that the Dodgers are aiming for an all-time attendance record of '3.6 million fans, or that White Sox executive Eddie Einhorn is close to signing a contract that would offer 140 games on cable television yearly...
...batting or pitching appearances.) Each club could, however, protect a number of its stars from being grabbed as compensation. The players abhor that plan more than night games in April because it presumably would make owners less eager to sign free agents, thus driving down their market price. Complains Marvin Miller, the players' union chief: "Let's say the free agent is an outstanding player but is 38 years old. A club might stand to lose one of its good young prospects if it took him, and that might kill the free agent's chances...
Barnett's suit is the strangest application yet of the "palimony" doctrine established by the California Supreme Court in a 1976 decision involving Actor Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola Marvin, his former live-in lover. Barnett charges that King promised to provide for all her "financial support and needs for the rest of her life in the same style and manner commensurate with the life-style of King." The suit also contends that King and her sports promoter husband Larry, whom she married in 1965, purchased a $200,000 Malibu beach house for Bar nett...
...pointed out that his director had been "behind five days in shooting- in six days." Universal's Ned Tanen noted that The Deer Hunter, which his studio coproduced, had gone 50% over budget. Sherry Lansing of 20th Century-Fox assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When Producer Ray Stark was asked what he would do with a self-indulgent director like Cimino, he shot back: "Fire him! Meanwhile, Michelangelo labored to repaint his Sistine Chapel. Five months later, an abridged Heaven's Gate has appeared...