Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fantasy Island, goes home and hangs up his impeccably pressed white suit, what does a man who caters to dreams change into? Perhaps his own fantasy is to doff his fastidious mien, let his hair sprout, and lounge around in the tattered haute couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens. As Tattoo might say: Hey Boss, whoever said dreams don't come...
Just as important, he is making it clear to the other senior players that Reagan's views must be paramount. As a decision is hatching, Clark in his slow, deliberate manner is apt to punctuate the conversation by asking: "Mr. President, is that what you want to do?" On the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 10, as Assistant Secretary of State John Holdridge was en route to Peking, Reagan talked to Clark from Camp David. They discussed the statement concerning U.S. plans to sell more F-5 fighters to Taiwan that Holdridge was about to present. But Reagan was uneasy...
...takeover is attractive to Columbia, the last of Hollywood's independent studios, because it provides access to Coke's vast reservoir of cash. Those funds will allow the film producer to compete with bigger rivals like Paramount and Universal Pictures. Both of those firms have already become subsidiaries of larger corporations that can provide the financing for developing movies and TV shows...
...cannon wearing a fine black beard and a jaunty smile but perhaps (there was a lot of public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble of personally hiring Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first public showing of One from the Heart, without informing Paramount, which...
...moment it did not matter whether, as Coppola claimed and Paramount denied, the film company owed him $1.6 million in completion money for the film, whose budget had ballooned to the astonishing sum of $26 million. Coppola had been distressed last August when Paramount showed an incomplete print to distributors and some critics; last week he explained his Radio City gamble by saying that he simply "wanted to see the film clean one time before it went into the funnel" of the distribution system. As the preview deadline neared, Coppola made last-minute changes in the film and sent them...