Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This goal is to see if he can turn movie production into a form of seduction, in which large, supposedly rational corporations are encouraged to spend bloated sums of money for unlikely enterprises. Five years ago, Paramount and Barclays Bank parted with not less than $40 million to make Reds, an epic-scale love story of two American radicals of small historical importance and no contemporary resonance. Now he has persuaded Columbia Pictures to throw a similar sum at this modest little comedy...
...fledgling network has assembled an impressive roster of Hollywood talent. At the top of Murdoch's entertainment conglomerate is Barry Diller, who was head of Paramount from 1974 to 1984, turning out such hits as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Flashdance. To run its program department, Fox raided NBC for a 29-year-old whiz kid named Garth Ancier. To create shows, it has enlisted such seasoned producers as James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Ed. Weinberger (Taxi) and Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team...
...result of a novel cross-promotion deal in which no money will change hands between Pepsi and Paramount, the film's producer. To compensate the studio for putting the ad on the cassette, almost $2 million worth of the jet-jockey Diet Pepsi commercials on broadcast TV will carry a voice-over touting the Top Gun video. Because Paramount will get free advertising, it will charge only $26.95 for the cassette, about $3 less than the lowest price so far for a major release...
...holes in the top of his head, and he expired on the flat white linen. The expanse of tablecloth had become for an instant dangerous, in a surreal way. The American had been run down by a pepper shaker from the Pleistocene in a restaurant named for the paramount white colonial of British East Africa, Lord Delamere...
...shake-up left some major questions unanswered. Who would succeed Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, who had named Hu to the top party post seven years ago and had supposedly groomed him as his political heir? What would become of Deng's sweeping economic reforms, aimed at modernizing agriculture and industry through the use of Western-style technology and limited free-market mechanisms? On the questions of economic and foreign policy, China's two top leaders sought to give assurances that no drastic shifts were in the works. Zhao told a visiting Hungarian official last week that the "personnel changes...