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...conventional, but the affair with the married woman does have some traction, in that Toni Mannix - played with lusty high spirits by Diane Lane - was the wife of Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), who was Louis B. Mayer's enforcer at M-G-M, the man who knew all the studio's secrets, scandalous and otherwise, and made sure they stayed secret. He was one tough guy, with connections to all the right cops and crooks (though, curiously, there were people in Hollywood's creative community who quite liked him, if only because he rarely spoke with forked tongue). The movie...
...reaction calls into question the wisdom of Redstone's recent moves to exert more control over the company and especially its movie studio, Paramount Pictures. The unexpected decision to fire Freston, a longtime Redstone friend and lieutenant, comes just two weeks after the chairman surprised the entertainment industry and Main Street by kicking Tom Cruise's production company off the Paramount lot after 14 years, ostensibly for conduct unbecoming high-priced talent whose box-office receipts weren't as boffo as before. Reif Cohen, citing Freston's stellar record at the helm of MTV, predicted that moviemakers won't like...
...Even before Tuesday's news, trading stories about disorder at Paramount and handicapping the fate of the current management, notably studio chief (and Freston hire) Brad Grey, was already a favorite parlor game in Hollywood. A few days after Cruise was cut loose, the head of a leading agency - one that does not represent the actor or his company - told TIME.com that his agents repeatedly have been frustrated by the inability of lower-level Paramount executives to make even minor decisions, such as okaying story pitches and entering low-dollar scriptwriting agreements, without first getting approval from their bosses...
...However, Freston's firing, coming as the studio is still working to recover from the shockwaves Redstone created with his handling of the Cruise affair, will add grist to the mill. "It's sad," said one veteran Hollywood player, who requested anonymity because of his business relationships with several people close to the situation. "How could this do anything but add more uncertainty to the situation at Paramount...
Goodwin continues to pursue studio projects. He won a Grammy for an arrangement in last year's The Incredibles, and this year he has orchestrated and conducted the scores for Snakes on a Plane and The Guardian. But the Phat Band has become a cause for him, if not quite a career. After all, with his exuberant, missionary zeal, he is advancing a vital tradition. At a Phat Band concert a year ago at the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California, one appreciative listener was the venerated arranger-composer Johnny Mandel, 80, who wrote for the likes of Basie, Herman...