Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paramount boss Jon Dolgen says studios will make more films together to share costs and spread risks. TriStar is teaming with Disney, for example, on Starship Troopers, an expensive sci-fi epic directed by Robocop's Paul Verhoeven that is taking the same July 4 slot occupied so successfully this year by Independence...
...demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration gets the FTC's approval." For Levin...
...series of confidential discussions with Yeltsin's aides, including one with First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who at the time was in charge of the President's nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to "find some Americans" but to proceed discreetly. "Secrecy was paramount," says Braynin. "Everyone realized that if the Communists knew about this before the election, they would attack Yeltsin as an American tool. We badly needed the team, but having them was a big risk...
Spirituality is not necessarily other-worldly and fey, although it is frequently portrayed as such. As your report suggests, spirituality manifests itself in some enormously practical ways, such as physical healing. But you make it sound as though Christian Scientists consider spiritual engagement merely a "paramount medical technique." To us, spirituality is the natural outcome of an understanding and loving God, whom we believe to be the Spirit. ENID M. GORMAN New York City...
Hollywood has relied on formula for years, but do Paramount (Mission: Impossible) and Warner Brothers (Eraser) actually have the same rewrite department...