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Getting booked on the Tonight Show is all about personality, a 15 minute long "mugging" session. A TV chat with the affable Leno has as its paramount goal making the politician look like the sort of person to whom "regular folks" could easily relate...
...William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with the wife of the co-producer, after the co-producer runs off with actress Stone...
Like summer rock concerts, summer movies will offer volume, volume, volume. More than 60 pictures will clog the cinemas. Paramount production chief Sherry Lansing is counting on hit films to breed other hits. "If people can't get into a popular film," she says, "they don't go home; they go to another one instead." But what movie to go to? In this summer swarm, you can't tell the major players without a scorecard. Here's ours...
After Miramax Film Corp.'s The Crying Game earned $60 million and the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, the hot studio was courted by the likes of Columbia and Paramount. But Walt Disney Co. won out, announcing that it will buy Miramax for an estimated $80 million. Disney, which prevailed in part because it let Miramax retain complete freedom over its projects, gets Miramax's library of more than 200 films, including smash hits such as sex, lies, and videotape. Miramax, with Disney backing, can now make bigger-budget films and perhaps secure more lucrative deals for cable and home-video...
...addition, parenting seems to be losing much of its force. Motherhood is no longer the first priority of many women, and increasingly fatherhood is not of paramount importance to men. According to one survey, in 1976 fewer than half as many fathers as in 1957 said that providing for children was one of their life goals...