Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial project, Wired has its problems. Belushi, the brilliant, volatile star of Saturday Night Live and films like National Lampoon's Animal House, has become a posthumous icon, a symbol of the raucous counterculture comedy that Saturday Night Live spearheaded in the '70s. But cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...
...however, Atlantic Entertainment has come to the rescue and is making plans for a July or August release. Then Wired can finally be judged by the people it was intended for: the audience. But repercussions from the unpopular project may not be over. Actor J.T. Walsh, who plays Woodward in the film, was set to appear next in Loose Cannons, a comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd. According to insiders, Walsh was let go after just one day on the set, to avoid upsetting Aykroyd. All of which may simply set the stage for another round of the Belushi media blitz...
...many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from the Japanese...
...Rosebud" sled gimmick, but most of the words belong to Welles, who, after all, had to speak them as the film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane. Among the footnotes to this classic is Steven Spielberg's purchase at auction of one of three sleds used in the project. The young producer-director paid $55,000 for the icon, only to have Welles later declare it a fake...
...with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer-improvement project in the nation." On election night, he talked about a new literacy program, public works jobs, beautifying neighborhoods and household-trash separation...