Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charismatic, young-dad figure by appearing each week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount. "He's childlike in terms of his enthusiasm and how he sees the world. He's eternally young." Nowadays when the 6-ft. 3-in. chairman strolls through Disney's theme parks with his family, fans scurry up for autographs and snapshots. "I'm not exactly a movie star," Eisner says...
...bucking currents. Her early fiction carried a strong, if artfully submerged, feminist message. Later, when the women's movement gathered force, she did not join the parade but rather devoted her energy to a cycle of five science-fiction novels. She criticized the West when its power seemed paramount. When the enemies of democracy grew threatening, she changed her emphasis; in The Good Terrorist (1985) she showed civilized London under siege by mindless anarchists. The Fifth Child admirably continues this iconoclastic tradition; it is scary, engrossing and radically disturbing...
...night stand. The companies set the price high, assuming that most cassettes will be bought only by retailers, who in turn will rent them to customers and keep all the rental income. (The price is typically reduced eight or nine months later.) But a few studios, notably Paramount and Disney, have pioneered prices of under $30 for first-run releases deemed to be collectible. These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics like Lady and the Tramp (the biggest-selling movie yet released on video). Industry observers believe...
Generally, however, prices seem to be trending higher. Paramount released Beverly Hills Cop on cassette in 1985 at $29.95. But when Beverly Hills Cop II arrives in the stores this month, it will sell for $89.95. Paramount executives explain that they are simply being selective about which films they target as probable big sellers, and thus candidates for bargain prices. Says Bob Klingensmith, president of Paramount's video division: "You don't have a Top Gun every month...
...this production the characters' differences remain vivid, but their common fate is more clear. Each has a conscience; each devotes his life to the paramount issue of survival; yet neither can feel any sense of accomplishment, or any hope of guiding his country out of the woods of Mutual Assured Destruction. Their highest achievement is to keep talking. As the Soviet says in a poignant valedictory, "Our time together has been a very great failure. But -- a successful...