Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dispute has long since turned personal for both men. Eisner's book relates how they grew up near each other on Manhattan's Park Avenue and rose through Hollywood's ranks together, with Eisner bringing in the decade-younger Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney. For two decades they worked in tandem, churning out blockbusters (Aladdin), star-making hits (Sister Act) and plenty of duds (Billy Bathgate). When Eisner wouldn't make Katzenberg his No. 2 after the death of president Frank Wells in a 1994 helicopter crash, the team went down as well...
...just dismiss these members of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia as isolated cases of mental illness and parental failure. They have been taught by their elders that their desires are paramount and that it is okay to achieve them at all costs. We have all been taught that it is okay to kill in the name of justice, that we deserve to have whatever we want, that some lives are not as good as other lives and that these "others" are expendable for their lack of convenience and their inability to meet superficial standards of perfection...
Diller, who made an unsuccessful run at Paramount in 1994 using stock from the shop-at-home company QVC, has been seen by the Internet community as crashing the party with a most unwelcome piece of news: your companies aren't worth as much as you think. (And for a few wobbly days early last week, he was right.) Wetherell and his ilk are now seeking to show Diller the door. "He's Barry Diller, he's famous, he's a great dealmaker, but he may have overstepped," says Joe Butt, senior analyst at Forrester Research...
...gray, uncharacteristically chilly day in Los Angeles, David Lynch is perched on a director's chair at the majestic wrought-iron gates to Paramount Pictures, dragging on an American Spirit cigarette and smiling at the video monitor. Lynch is shooting a scene for Mulholland Drive, his new 1-hr. series expected to premiere this fall on ABC. The show follows two women--one an innocent, the other a vixen with a shady past--whose lives intersect in contemporary Hollywood. As the cameras roll, a Yellow taxi drives up, depositing an ethereal-looking blond at the gate. She pauses breathlessly, then...
...closet could have been wired to blow. With explosions filling the air with smoke and the alarm bells filling officers' ears (arriving SWAT officers tried to get an assistant principal to turn off the alarms, but she was so rattled she couldn't remember the code) caution was paramount -- and yet strategy was nearly impossible...