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...altered photo collage. Eye from Comstock Inc. Star Trek by Henry Gris -- FPG; credit cards by Robert Kristofik -- The Image Bank; Bernard Shaw courtesy CNN; travel by Paul Nehrenz -- The Image Bank; music by John Endress -- The Stock Market; Gone With the Wind from Photofest; The Crying Game courtesy Miramax Films; boxing by Neil Leifer; Arthur's Teacher Trouble courtesy Broderbund Software; VideoPhone courtesy AT&T; still-life photos by James Keyser...
...unexpected citation -- for a tender acting turn by a first-time performer in an inexpensive ($5 million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding...
...difficult to tell. Miramax milked it. It became a talking point, which is what I wanted to do. I wanted it to be a narrative situation between me and the audience...
This year will be Miramax's biggest test. Four of the 14 films it is distributing were also produced by Miramax. Two of these are already in some trouble. Strike It Rich, with Molly Ringwald, has bombed, and The Lemon Sisters, with Diane Keaton, has been delayed for reworking. Miramax must also contend with greater competition from the big studios. Warner, for instance, outbid Miramax last year for the documentary-style Roger & Me, a major hit. The brothers insist there is still plenty of room in Tinseltown for the little guy. Says Harvey: "We try to be like Rolls-Royce...
Turnaround experts profit from the failure of companies that borrowed recklessly in the Roaring Eighties. -- Tiny Miramax Films sure knows how to pick big winners...