Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien...
...first two weeks of its release, the movie Flashdance, an airheaded $8.5 million romance about a pretty Pittsburgh welder, earned $11.3 million and, more remarkably, for Paramount Pictures, improved its business the second week. The Flashdance LP, with ten songs from the film's nonstop pop-rock score, has sold 700,000 copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records...
...another in the long list of British mannerists (Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson) to have graduated from TV commercials, and to bring their techniques and attention span with them. For another, the film's "production numbers" were designed, or at least marketed, with MTV in mind. Paramount began running two-minute commercials on MTV a full three weeks before the movie opened. "The MTV audience likes music, movement, dancing," notes Weaver. "We hoped the movie and MTV would make a happy marriage. And it happened...
...wood legitimacy. Author of award-winning short stories, screenwriter of such intelligent exploitation movies as The Lady in Red and Alligator, gifted writer-director of the no-budget Return of the Secaucus 7 and the low-budget Lianna, Sayles has traded up. His new film is being released by Paramount Pictures, was shot with a union crew, and is the first Sayles movie he has not edited on the kitchen table of his home in Hoboken, N.J. But Baby, It's You is not the traditional calling-card film of an ambitious young talent, shaping its dexterity...
Some of the blame for that must fall on Curtis. Paramount wanted a general to manage this vast project, and in Curtis it got one. Like Ulysses S. Grant, he eventually gains victory, but his tactics can be clumsy, and his formations are sometimes ragged along the edges. He is not, in short, an elegant director. His main concern is to keep the action moving, which he does...