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This Amadeus dares to pose the riddle of genius in the form of a traditional celebrity bio pic. In 1781 Mozart (Tom Hulce), once the put-upon prodigy of musical Europe, comes at the age of 26 to the Viennese court of Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II (played with a sly, thin smile and a delicious air of cagey indecisiveness by Jeffrey Jones). There the man of the moment is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham): court composer, consummate technician and politician, Emperor's favorite, a musical lion of Vienna. Most important, he knows his place, as an educated servant among...
...best I've ever heard about." It was certainly one of the longest: 18 months from first proposal to final prints, involving substantial amounts of planning, travel and especially diplomacy. "Persuading star athletes to interrupt their training schedules and sometimes go hundreds of miles to pose for pictures took a lot of cajolery," recalls Leifer. "So did getting officials at the Parthenon to close the temple early so we could shoot in late-afternoon light and convincing the Chinese that I indeed wanted to shoot at the Great Wall and not at the Temple of Heaven, even though...
...Result: the shoot underwent a fast change of locale to Windsor Castle. Scaffolding also loomed as a potential problem at the Statue of Liberty, which was scheduled to be shut down late last year for repair and refurbishing. Leifer quickly corralled the busy Carl Lewis and got him to pose last October in what was then the only prototype of the U.S. Olympic uniform. "The real difficulty," says Leifer, "was getting him up at 5:30 a.m. to be at the statue when the light is best. Carl hates to get up early...
...from where the Olympic spirit first caught fire, Greece's Charalambos Holidis, 28, seems poised to carry the Parthenon bodily to Los Angeles. Yet the menacing pose of the Greco-Roman wrestler is only part of the picture. True, Holidis is the reigning European champion in the 57-kilo category (roughly 126 Ibs.), and he might have held the world title had he not broken a finger during last year's competition. He finished second, winning high marks for courage and determination. "You should have seen him fighting," says the president of the Greek wrestling federation. "He just refuses...
Walt Disney Productions and St. Regis Corp., the forest-products firm, have both been victims of greenmail. In a greenmail ploy, an investor buys enough stock in a company to pose a takeover threat in hopes that the firm's officers will buy him out at a premium. Disney paid $297.4 million in June for shares held by Financier Saul Steinberg, who made a quick $32 million profit. St. Regis has been greenmailed twice, first by Sir James Goldsmith, the British industrialist, and then by Loews Corp., the hotel and movie-theater company...