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...With the earthquake that hit Hollywood ... ((God)) has shown where his sympathies lie." -- FRENCH FILM MOGUL DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, REFERRING OBLIQUELY TO THE TRADE BATTLES BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FRANCE OVER AMERICAN MOVIES
Close it and hope people don't remember I'll Do Anything as the last action musical. "Jim was trying something very interesting," says actor-writer- director Albert Brooks (no kin), who plays a Hollywood mogul in the film. "But that doesn't mean that if it didn't work, the project doesn't work. After all, every single thing in our lives was something else before we got to it. Would you like to stand in a restaurant and watch them cook your meal? If you saw the Mona Lisa three weeks into it . . ." He pauses. "Actually, the Mona...
...Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered The Gospel According to St. Ann, a four-hour mini-series starring Ann-Margret as a self-made sports mogul. For NBC he is developing a Tom Clancy mini-series and several sitcoms, including a comic version of Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte and a Love, American Style with animals...
...were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black...
...acquire Paramount Communications for $69.14 a share in cash and stock and thereby create one of the world's media giants.Since Redstone would hold 70% of the voting stock of the combined company, he would have majority control of more movies, books and television shows than any other media mogul--unless Ted Turner, Barry Diller or one of the other rival suitors now circling the Paramount building comes forward and derails the merger...