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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus the credo "Quit while you're ahead" may have inspired last week's announcement: Tartikoff was leaving NBC to head Paramount Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDIA: Mr. Tartikoff Takes Off | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...Paramount can use the help. Ghost turned box offices into cash cows, but the studio remains a flophouse, home to such crowd displeasers as The Two Jakes and The Godfather Part III. What about rumors of a Paramount-NBC merger? | Nonsense, says Paramount chief executive Martin Davis -- at least for the near term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDIA: Mr. Tartikoff Takes Off | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...seven tent cities, each housing up to 100,000 Kurds. The idea is to bring the refugees down from the barren, freezing and almost inaccessible mountain slopes where they are perched and relocate them where they can be given adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation and medical care. And, of paramount importance, safety: the camps will be protected by as many as 10,000 soldiers from the U.S., 5,000 from Britain, 1,300 from France and 1,000 each from the Netherlands and Italy. from any attempt by Saddam Hussein to exact bloody vengeance for the Kurds' failed revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission of Mercy | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...might be interesting to say that the citizens of Florida have a paramount concern," Bludworth said...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Grand Jury May Decide On Prosecution of Smith | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...Arthur Krim into an essentially powerless position. Such actions may not be enough. Orion's upcoming releases look weak -- and the studio is so hungry for cash that last month it sold its most promising new picture, a movie version of TV's cult hit The Addams Family, to Paramount at a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERTAINMENT: Dances with Debt | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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