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With his gold jewelry, corporate jet, Beverly Hills compound and walkie- talkie-toting bodyguards, Kassar is the picture of Hollywood happiness. The industry's overpaid stars love him. But the 39-year-old chairman of Carolco Pictures, the father of the lucrative Rambo series, is coming under fire from investors for squandering money on his films and himself. And major studio bosses claim that his extravagance is hurting the business. For Sylvester Stallone's role in Rambo III, Kassar handed the star $16 million, more than the entire budget of First Blood, the series' opener. The cumbrous Arnold Schwarzenegger raked...
...cave in. He has said as much on innumerable occasions, and he still "seems to believe that we lack the will," says a Bush Administration expert on the Middle East. Another possibility is that Saddam honestly believes he can win. "The Americans will come here to perform acrobatics like Rambo movies," Saddam declared last Friday. "But they will find here real people to fight them. We are a people who have eight years of experience in war and combat...
...into a tourist attraction keyed to entertainment. But the industry is also undergoing profound change in its essential financial and cultural dynamic: moving toward the European and Asian customer as a major source of revenue while moving away from American network television as the creative and economic magnet. Rambo III earned $55 million at home but $105 million abroad...
Other global entertainment deals are being done almost daily. Last week the Japanese electronics maker Pioneer bought the Japanese rights to all Carolco films, which include the Rambo series and Total Recall. Yet control of the remaining three U.S.-owned studios seems likely to remain in American hands. To reduce its $11 billion debt load, Time Warner is looking abroad for partners to take minority stakes in some of its entertainment subsidiaries. "We agree with Matsushita's concept ((of globalization)), but we disagree % with the execution," says Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. "Parent companies should keep their national identities...
...find me jogging in Central Park at night. I want something better for my daughter. I want fathers to raise boys to respect women as equals and keep their fists to themselves. Some cherished male folkways may have to go -- the cult of hyperviolent heroes like Rambo, for example. Too bad. I want men to confront their own aggression, the pleasure they take in its depiction and the excuses they make for its enactment -- that no really means yes, that wives need to know who's boss, that "bad" girls are fair game. I want them to tell their tiny...