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Carnes and her husband Dave Ellingson have collaborated on songs recorded by Sinatra (You Turned My World Around) and Streisand (Love Comes from Unexpected Places), keeping themselves comfortably off the dole while they waited for Kim's career to take off. Kenny Rogers, who like Kim and Dave is a Christy Minstrels alum, gave a boost last year when he recorded one of their tunes, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer, as a duet with Kim. That chart pacer paved the way. Carnes had a successful follow-up single on her own, but Bette Davis Eyes...
...back quickly. This means recycling the familiar into the surefire: 1980's biggest hit was The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas' sequel to Star Wars. It means signing box-office stars at huge salaries: Burt Reynolds pulled in a reported $5 million for The Cannonball Run, Barbra Streisand $4.6 million for All Night Long. Directors are stars too: Francis Ford Coppola was offered $3 million to direct One from the Heart. Says Director Martin Scorsese, 38: "We're working ourselves right out of jobs. I'm concerned that the industry is being destroyed...
Columbia's Price frets that the studios are "run by the three A's: accountants, attorneys and agents." Stan Kamen, who represents Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Michael Cimino and a dozen other heavyweights, and whose William Morris Agency is sent 2,500 scripts a year, counters that "ex-agents are running major studios. They were packagers. They know how these deals are made. Half the Hollywood movies today are packaged or semipackaged by agents." Diller agrees ruefully: "This town is Deal City. Do you know the amount of time spent on deals instead of what the movie...
...First Streisand film in which she does not receive top billing (Hackman gets it); first American feature directed by the husband of Hollywood's most powerful agent (Jean-Claude Tramont, spouse to Sue Mengers); first Hollywood movie in ages to end with the legend...
Worst miscasting of Streisand, in a role vacated by Lisa Eichhorn and suitable only for the young Minnie Pearl: worst script by W.D. Richter (Slither, Brubaker); worst-looking meal ever served to a prospective lover (by Streisand to Hackman)-it looks like poured concrete on toast...