Word: medavoy
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...difficult, and the director was said to have been disillusioned as well by the normal run of Hollywood hustling. According to an associate, Malick found the whole ancillary process of marketing a movie "sickening"--and who wouldn't? "He said he always planned to take a break," recounts Mike Medavoy, Malick's agent at the time of Badlands and currently the head of Phoenix Pictures, which is producing The Thin Red Line for Fox. "He just didn't plan to take such a long break...
...office, and three times as likely to earn $100 million. For action movies with blockbuster eyes, the R has nearly become the dread X. Cliffhanger, the R- rated Sylvester Stallone thriller, earned a cozy $50 million in its first 17 days. But, says TriStar boss Mike Medavoy, "would I have preferred a PG-13 on that movie...
...Medavoy's White House friend does seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time with high-income constituents from L.A.'s west side. But Ronald Reagan was himself a movie actor (and appointed an actor Ambassador to Mexico). George Bush began his term shilling for a Dan Ayckroyd movie produced by an old buddy, let Arnold Schwarzenegger play his running mate last year, and had Dana Carvey in for a White House sleepover on one of his last nights as President. Why has permissible Republican good-sport glamour become an invidious symptom of Clinton's slack, "What? Me worry?" presidency...
...these people," says one of his Hollywood intimates, "have never been to Washington before"), yet unlike all other well-connected capital hangers-on, these visitors don't come for a tax break, a contract or any venal purpose; they ask not what their country can do for them. Although Medavoy (like Streisand) works for the Japanese, he says that nudging Clinton on trade policy is "the last conversation I'd ever have with him. I don't lobby the President...
...palpable. It seems particularly dumb for Clinton, whose candidacy was almost wrecked by allegations of past adulteries, to consort regularly with the Sharon Stones of the world. The show people mean well, and Clinton is guilty mainly of excessive sociability. But it was well-meaning, intelligent Mike Medavoy who, one day a few years ago, took Gary Hart to the show-business party where he met Donna Rice...