Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...
Many DTV veterans are frustrated. "The market has gotten tougher and tougher," says superhack Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Bad Girls from Mars), who last week started directing his sixth film this year. "Nowadays, you have to do more for less money to make less money. Genres like vampire films and erotic thrillers and cyborg takeoffs of Terminator are all dead...
...male stars have other reasons. Employment is one. David Carradine, the Kung Fu TV veteran who 20 years ago won critical raves for Bound for Glory but now is more likely to be found scaring coeds in Ray's Evil Toons, says, "Doing DTV films is dangerous for me as a mainstream actor. But I like the taste of danger." Don ("the Dragon") Wilson likes the taste of money. The kick-boxing star had six films released in 13 months, and claims to make $250,000 per. "I tell people I'm not an actor; I'm an action star...
...DIED. RAY FULLER, 60, co-developer of the antidepressant drug Prozac; of leukemia; in Greenwood, Indiana...
...RAY WALSTON, SEVENTYISH, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; Actor For a generation of Americans, Martians weren't little green men--they looked like Walston, who starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other...