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...must avoid whenever possible the exorbitant costs of international policing if we hope to partake in this prosperity. The consequences of such a policy would compromise economic and political relations as well as our strategic links abroad. Indeed, while its revisionist policy on the U.N. aims at denying this paramount institution of collective security any real influence, the "Contract for America" cleverly fails to address the issue of foreign trade and investment altogether...
produced by Paramount Pictures...
Indian in the Cupboard, a joint Paramount and Columbia Pictures release, is this summer's attempt to challenge the superhero-dominated children's entertainment of the summer with some old-fashioned, whole-some fun. Unfortunately, it just doesn't deliver what it promises...
When a film makes more than $650 million at the box office, movie executives don't get as sick of it as ordinary people do. Which may explain why Paramount paid more than $1 million for the rights to WINSTON GROOM'S new book, Gump & Co., despite the fact that Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis have expressed but wan interest in taking part in a Gump sequel. The book, in stores in August, follows the life of Gump and son after 1980. While Groom insists the recent fracas over his lack of royalties from the original Gump film...
...American Psycho, the sado-chic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, after advance complaints about passages detailing the sexual torture and mutilation of women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount. "You have to stand for something.'' This is just the sort of thing that Dole says he has in mind: self-restraint on the part of producers and distributors. "I'm just saying sometimes you have to have corporate responsibility and remember the impact on children...