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...route to his leading role alongside Terri Garr and Peter Weller in the new Paramount film was less secure. "I did a lot of production in school," he says. "A friend of mine was doing commercials and she said to go for it." After some dozen spots for the Madison Avenue set, he landed a role in The Torch Song Trilogy. "I played a battered child who was gay and adopted by a drag queen." He says, holding back a slight smile...
...first, the issue of selective prosecution appeared paramount. Earlier this year, when Idaho Congressman George Hansen updated his book about the IRS' abuse of power. To Harass Our People, he included a chapter summing up the Moon case. Hansen wrote that "From the beginning, it was evident that the government was relying for its case on the most damning facts possible-the unpopularity of the Moon church and the fact that Reverend Moon is an Oriental...
...ideas, especially on economic issues, Mr. Reagan has proven that massive doses of Keynesianism still work. Too many Liberals for too long listened to the Bank of Canada, the Department of Finance, and other defenders of the conventional order. Full employment--rather than tight money--must become the paramount goal of the Liberal Party...
...soon the fad faded in red ink and rancor. The same black community leaders who would urge Paramount Pictures to suppress Ralph Bakshi's "racist" film Coonskin (and, a decade later, Sam Fuller's White Dog) were condemning blaxploitation as image suicide. Moreover, white liberal producers, reluctant to portray black men as rapists and dopers, failed to come up with alternatives. "If you're not working," says Actor Stan Shaw (Roots II), "you don't "get better...
Gulf & Western replaced Diller with Frank Mancuso, 51, Paramount's marketing chief. Michael Eisner, 42, Diller's former second in command, quit his post, apparently because Mancuso got the job he wanted. There were rumors that Diller would bring Eisner to Fox, which needs an infusion of fresh ideas...