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Word: megahits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no business like show business, even when it comes to off-screen commercial disputes. In a settlement that left Hollywood somewhat breathless last week, Warner Bros. and Sony Corp. ended their two-month battle over the services of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, the megahit producers of Batman and Rain Man. Warner agreed to release Guber, 47, and Peters, 44, from a five-year contract, thereby permitting Sony to hire the pair to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which the Japanese firm is acquiring for $3.4 billion. In return, Sony ceded entertainment assets to Warner Bros. that analysts estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Up, Hollywood Style | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...back and he' s Bad ! Five years after the release of Thriller, Michael Jackson unleashes another megahit album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page September 14, 1987 | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...make an AIDS film, although The Normal Heart may soon be produced by Barbra Streisand. Nor have rock musicians, trapped in machismo, done much to raise money and consciousnesses. In pop music, that is mostly women's work. And women, like Madonna, are doing splendidly. Dionne Warwick's megahit single That's What Friends Are For raised more than $1 million for AMFAR. Cyndi Lauper's royalties from Boy Blue, about a friend who died from the disease, will go to New York City AIDS research and patient care. Says Elizabeth Taylor, a ferocious fund raiser for AIDS research: "Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How Artists Respond to AIDS | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...hands on a rocket launcher in a situation that compels its immediate use is the comic high point of this sequel. Anyway, he provides a high, sweet note of mysterious absurdity that occasionally cuts through the din of a movie that all too resolutely attempts to replicate the comedy megahit of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Din Among the Sheltering Palms BEVERLY HILLS COP II | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...movie theaters, this illegal shooting usually gets a big hand. Righteous vengeance. Good guy kills bad guy. It is the kind of movie catharsis that may make Platoon a megahit. But can Chris or the audience take moral satisfaction in this deed? Which "father" has he followed? Has Chris become like Elias, back from the grave to avenge his own murder? "You have to fight evil if you are going to be a good man," Stone says. "That's why Chris killed Barnes. Because Barnes deserved killing." Or has he emulated his enemy? Has he become Barnes in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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