Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Boston College students have raided their local Baybank machines, this past week, throwing more than $60,000 into a student organized, get-rich-quick pyramid scheme which has netted up to $6000 for some lucky students in a matter of days...
...time flat." In Desperately Seeking Susan, Arquette reveals herself as a master of comic body language--and there is eloquence in that delicately voluptuous body--but she still uses something like an internal Ouija board to find Roberta's pressure points. Says Susan Seidelman: "Rosanna has a rich emotional life she's in constant touch with. It meant for enormous temperamental ups and downs on the set. But then I'd look at the rushes and love what's on the screen...
...Iacocca is also an increasingly rich and celebrated guy. Over this past winter, his popularity has assumed extraordinary proportions. His memoir, Iacocca, has stayed at the top of best-seller lists for almost five months, moving out of bookstores for a while at a rate of 15,000 copies a day. "The book's popularity reaches across all social strata, in all regions of the country," says Bernard Rath, president of the American Booksellers Association. Indeed, its publisher says that Iacocca has just become the best- selling nonfiction hardcover in history: more than 1.5 million copies are in print.* Hundreds...
...kicked him out, only to be forced aside himself a few months later. (Richard had another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While other studios, like Paramount and Columbia Pictures, were being swallowed by conglomerates, the purchase by Davis and his partner Marc Rich seemed to presage a return to Hollywood's good old bad days of iron rule...
That has not been the case. Davis, who bought out Rich, behaved like a mogul, buying a $20 million house in Beverly Hills and mixing with the stars. But he did not act like one. He showed little knack for movie management and took $538.6 million from Fox, part of which was used to pay back the loans that had enabled him to acquire the company. With the exception of the Star Wars trilogy, most of whose profits went to George Lucas, Fox had precious few hits...