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...same canny marketing tactics have helped make "Crocodile" Dundee, the saga of an ingenuous Australian crocodile hunter on the loose in Manhattan, the sleeper film of the year. Serendipity alone explains Paramount's decision to buy rights to the film from its producer and star, Paul Hogan, for less than $4 million. But Mancuso and his executives made the crucial choice to release the Australian film as a full-scale commercial effort in 871 theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour...
...Most of the films are extremely forgettable, and so are the adaptations of his work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been made cheaply in standing sets and on the Burbank lot with Warner contract players, and by that time had already been tipped as a 'sleeper' . . . I had not expected to enjoy myself --Background to Danger with George Raft had made me very queasy--but I had not expected a screen Dimitrios to give me stomach cramps. They were quite severe." At the close, he imagines an ideal novelist-turned-screenwriter. After he completes his assignment...
...radar screen with his 1984 novel, The Hunt for Red October, a tale of a defecting Soviet nuclear submarine and its conflicted crew. Published by the Naval Institute Press, known primarily for academic and technical journals, the book was praised by Ronald Reagan as "the perfect yarn," became the sleeper of the year and stayed on the best-seller lists for seven months. With his new novel, Clancy has climbed out of the water. This time his subject is nothing less than World...
...with them, in case they got stopped by state troopers. And the time he was host at a birthday party for Bond's 16-year-old daughter. And the times he had to wake Bond up in the morning. "We used to call him God's greatest sleeper," Lewis says. Bond, for his part, remembers that the early-to-rise Lewis would fall asleep when they went to the movies, "even if it was Conan." And he remembers how they would sit around the bars of Holiday Inns while traveling through the South and elicit personal confessions from each other...
...NEVER FEEL the same way about a one night stand after you see Letter to Brezhnev, a little-publicized sleeper from the British Isles now in limited release around Boston. The story of two young women from the gray, depressing city of Liverpool where the largest local employer is a chicken processing plant, Letter focuses on Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Theresa's (Margie Clark) quest for adventure and escapist relief from their normally drab lives...