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THINK OF ALL THE LIES I GOT TO put up with!" bellows Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He's a cantankerous colossus--a self-made cotton mogul whose vast fortune has drawn around him a circle of toadies and fools. His is the glutted cry of someone finally facing the truth about his life. Only he hasn't yet met the truth. For he has been lied to even more extensively than he supposes. Told that he's suffering from a minor intestinal ailment, he's actually riddled with cancer. Those closest...
Today any mogul can see the smart arithmetic in films of low to medium budget that earn medium to high grosses. "When an action movie costs $60 million and then tanks," says actress-director Jodie Foster, "the studio takes a huge bath. But if you make reasonable films about people and how they relate to one another and the weird adventures they get into, you're actually taking a very good risk...
...studios and in directors' chairs on the set. Penny Marshall, the first woman director to have a flourishing Hollywood career (Big, A League of Their Own) since Dorothy Arzner in the '30s, is joined by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and a dozen or so more. Trailblazing mogul-mama Sherry Lansing at Paramount has welcome competition in Laura Ziskin at Fox 2000 and Stacey Snider, Lucy Fisher and Lisa Henson at Sony. For once not all executive decisions can be made in the men's room. "Today, when green-lighting movie lists," says exec producer Lindsay Doran...
...very rich have different problems from the rest of us. For instance, STEVEN SPIELBERG is suing a doughnut mogul for financial harassment. Back in 1968, Denis Hoffman, who now owns Designer Donuts in Los Angeles, invested $10,000 in Spielberg's debut film Amblin. As part of the deal, Spielberg agreed to direct a film for Hoffman within the next 10 years. According to Spielberg, the director bought out the contract in 1977. Hoffman sees it differently and last May told Spielberg to direct a film for him or pony up $33 million. So Spielberg sued. Hoffman, naturally, is countersuing...
...Software mogul Bill Gates' privately held Corbis Corp. purchased the Bettmann Archive and its 16 million photographs and illustrations for an undisclosed sum in the millions of dollars. Corbis has already bought nonexclusive electronic rights to thousands of images from several world-famous museums for digital conversion...