Word: overpaid
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With his gold jewelry, corporate jet, Beverly Hills compound and walkie- talkie-toting bodyguards, Kassar is the picture of Hollywood happiness. The industry's overpaid stars love him. But the 39-year-old chairman of Carolco Pictures, the father of the lucrative Rambo series, is coming under fire from investors for squandering money on his films and himself. And major studio bosses claim that his extravagance is hurting the business. For Sylvester Stallone's role in Rambo III, Kassar handed the star $16 million, more than the entire budget of First Blood, the series' opener. The cumbrous Arnold Schwarzenegger raked...
Hazelwood's curious journey from villain to victim is not yet complete. The Coast Guard is expected to seek the revocation of his captain's license, and he remains a co-defendant with his former employer in more than 100 civil damage suits that will keep lawyers overpaid for years. After the jury rendered its verdict, Hazelwood talked wistfully about going back to sea. "That's what I do," he said. His attorney suggested he might even try to persuade Exxon to reinstate his client as skipper of an oil tanker. As unlikely as that now seems...
Digging for the dirt is a round-the-clock job. "I'm desperately overstimulated, overentertained and overpaid," says Smith. With two assistants in her Manhattan apartment, Smith spends the day on the phone, sifting through stacks of mail, and keeping the party dates straight. Soon the columnist may become Liz Smith the series. Already a regular on TV station / WNBC in New York, she has made pilots for a celebrity-interview show that may air on the Fox network next fall...
Baseball these days, as all agree, is the national pursetime: overpaid and oversold, merchandising brief bursts of tedium between flurries of beer commercials. Ah, but when the world was young, thinks the old child, the former boy, it was all wonderful. I remember...
...consulting work with six leading defense contractors. To believe Tower, he provided them with little more than the "enlightened judgment" they could just as easily get from reading the papers and dropping by a few academic think tanks. If true, it appears that Tower was vastly overpaid for his services, and it is troubling to contemplate what he now owes his benefactors...