Word: paramount
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...film has woman-to-woman origins, though it ended up in the guiding hands of men. Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing bought the rights to the Olivia Goldsmith novel when it was still just an idea and Lansing was still a producer. After she took over the studio, she handed the project to the prolific Scott Rudin (who produced Clueless and The Firm), who in turn hired Steel Magnolias screenwriter Robert Harling. Admittedly not a woman, Harling says he did bring some personal insight to the first-wife mind-set. "They tell you to write what you know," he says...
...production hit a rough patch when Hawn tried to drop out shortly before shooting started. Paramount's Lansing played hardball, threatening to sue. "I'll take your house," an insider remembers her threatening. Hawn stayed in but asked for changes to make the women less shrewish. "I stuck with that bone and didn't let it go," she says. Addams Family Values screenwriter Paul Rudnick polished the script. And Midler, demanding more comedy, improvised some of her sharpest lines, including her comment to her husband's lithe mistress: "My, my. The bulimia certainly has paid...
...likely also-rans--Paramount, Warner, Universal and the rest--have begun courting Lucas, who remains holed up at his Marin County office. "He ain't easy to woo," laments a studio chairman. "He's not easy to get to." Handicappers say Lucas talks first to Fox, which has shown its good faith by lavishing millions on the video boxed set and on redoing the original trilogy for theaters. Fox also has a big bargaining chip: Lucas owns the copyrights to the Empire and Jedi installments, but Star Wars belongs to Fox. A friend says Lucas wants to complete his collection...
Many readers argued that homosexuality is not a choice. "If Krauthammer believes that one's sexual orientation is chosen, let him say when he chose to find women physically attractive rather than men," wrote Michael Hickey, 45, the executive director of technical services at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. Hickey, a homosexual whose partner of 14 years recently died of aids, concluded, "Where there is no choice, there can be no moral issue...
...telling reporters "the United States fully understands our position." That position is awkward. As the new player at the peace table, Netanyahu is finding it difficult to carve himself a different road to peace with his neighbors. He is determined to live up to his campaign vow to give paramount priority to Israeli security, while also carrying forward his predecessor's unfinished negotiations, some terms of which Netanyahu rejects outright. While he strengthened his hand somewhat simply through the symbolism of meeting with Clinton, whose treatment of him has been somewhat chilly, rumors preceeded Netanyahu to Washington that...