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...featuring such celebrities as Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest). When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly Hills garden party. Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with the backing of fantasy-film Mogul George Lucas, this summer will release a dramatic movie that is critical of U.S. policy in Nicaragua. "Of course we know the political impact that a feature film on Central America will have," says Wexler. "That's why we made...
...endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren and Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump; his corporate commissions include PepsiCo's world headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., and New Orleans' new Inter- Continental Hotel...
...shut up, he might not have produced his astounding best seller. More than the TV spots or the personal appearances, it is the galloping success of Iacocca that has made him seem something more than just another colorful mogul. Since publication last November, his book has sold more copies than Chrysler has sold cars. "From the first day," says Missie Koche, manager of a Waldenbooks in an Atlanta mall, "it's been a best seller. Everyone seems to like it, not just the business types. There must be something about it that makes it magic." Similarly, at the Harvard Book...
...Denver oilman who bought it in 1981--Marvin Davis might be a good name for him--has presided over a festival of flops with titles like Rhinestone, The Buddy System, A Night in Heaven, Blame It on Rio and Turk 182! Last September he brought in the super-star mogul of Paramount Pictures--let's give him the name Barry Diller--to turn things around. But meanwhile the losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last fiscal year, $12.4 million in the last quarter for which there are figures. So what does this desperate tycoon do? He sells half...
That has not been the case. Davis, who bought out Rich, behaved like a mogul, buying a $20 million house in Beverly Hills and mixing with the stars. But he did not act like one. He showed little knack for movie management and took $538.6 million from Fox, part of which was used to pay back the loans that had enabled him to acquire the company. With the exception of the Star Wars trilogy, most of whose profits went to George Lucas, Fox had precious few hits...