Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocked when the estate was handed to me, because there was very little money available. We really didn't have anything," said Priscilla during an interview in her modest office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where she has run Elvis' estate since 1979, when not making a name for herself as an actress in prime-time soap operas or Naked Gun movies. Then again, perhaps she should not have been so shocked at the estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money...
...Beaulieu Presley, who divorced him in 1973 but took over EPE six years later as trustee for their young daughter Lisa Marie. (EPE was and is the operating arm of the trust that owns the Presley estate.) At the time, the company's principal asset was dead, his shockingly modest estate of $4.5 million was rapidly dwindling, and his popularity was in sharp decline. As the company struggled through the courts to regain control over the name, image and reputation of Elvis, it managed to both redefine American publicity law and revolutionize the marketing of dead celebrities--a not inconsiderable...
...movie I would work on was a Disney film starring Richard Dreyfus and a six-foot-tall, beautiful blond, who both spent a good portion of the movie in black face and tribal garb. It had a shaky story line, a $30 million budget--modest as major studio productions go--and was filming initially in a warehouse in a deserted industrial area of Los Angeles. One of the priorities of a production assistant such as myself was to keep the set clear of interlopers and silent while filming. This included asking a variety of passers-by to reroute and walk...
...byways of the plane, armed mainly with native wit and a "Don't tread on me" philosophy. There is good--sometimes witty--suspense in Marshall's single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools--a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine--come to hand...
...because they are ridiculous. Like they're cool because they're so awful. I don't think so. We do not love exploitation films because we want to relive a past decade of innocence. Exploitation filmmakers have proved that creative, classic and socially relevant films can be made on modest budgets. These movies hit close to home. We are in our houses, and there are nymphomaniac cannibalistic freaks waiting to feast. This is real! This is myth! BROOK KING Pittsburgh...