Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandon it without something better in its place." House Budget Chief Gray and incoming Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd have also suggested that Gramm-Rudman may have to be revamped. But the White House would probably object. Says Miller: "If we go back on Gramm- Rudman, the deficit will shoot right up again...
...Shoot, Jim! Shoot!" For 25 years that insistent cry--half command, half appeal--has been heard around the world, or wherever cameras have been set up for a Merchant-Ivory production. From India (Heat and Dust) to Boston (The Bostonians) to Florence (A Room with a View), Ismail Merchant, the producer part of the team, has been pleading with James Ivory, his directing partner, please, please to hurry up: time is short and money is shorter. So constant was the refrain on the English sets of their newest picture, Maurice, that when filming ended last month the cast...
...Gone With the Wind. The movie town's enormous energy and arrogance stayed intact through the war years, but then its charmed life began to bleed away. One cause was Red baiting by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. TV cut into attendance. It became commonplace to shoot movies abroad, beyond the easy control of studios. Hollywood's civility, soured by the blacklist that the studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain...
Director Sidney Lumet and his cinematographer, Andrzej Bartkowiak, shoot Los Angeles in what they seem to think is a new light but is really imitation Magritte, the kind of thing you can pick up in art galleries where the EVERYTHING MUST GO signs are permanently posted...
...soaring success of Top Gun is typical of the shrewd marketing methods Mancuso had championed at Paramount even before he took over as chairman. Top Gun was originally scheduled to open in late May, at the same time as Warner's Sylvester Stallone shoot-'em-up Cobra and MGM's horror flick Poltergeist II. Mancuso instead elected to preview the Paramount entry a week early, then expand its showing in the beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein...