Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hell hath no fury like a woman whose development deals are stymied. Sondra Locke is suing former beau Clint Eastwood because when they broke up, Locke dropped her palimony suit after he said he'd help her get a studio deal. She's asking for $2 million, claiming Eastwood secretly undermined her projects. He denies her allegations...
...this fall (Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, Cybill and 3rd Rock are its incumbents), more than any other independent production company--though there aren't many independent companies left for comparison. As media mergers proliferate and most small producers have sought shelter under the umbrella of a studio, Carsey and Werner are determined to keep going it alone. In doing so, they have proved that a couple of smart programmers with good instincts and enough confidence to fight for what they believe in can still be a power in prime time...
Carsey, 51, and Werner, 46, are the most unassuming moguls in Hollywood. They share an office on the second floor of their unpretentious bungalow on the former MTM lot in Studio City and rarely go out for fancy lunches, preferring to grab a plate in the commissary line downstairs. Intensely private, both have families (Carsey is married to a former comedy writer and has two children; Werner and his businesswoman wife have three) that they keep out of the limelight. Carsey drives a modest Mustang convertible; Werner tools around in a Toyota Landcruiser. Carsey doesn't even have an answering...
Levine, a colorless lawyer who has never ingratiated himself within the industry, could be facing the same fate himself. By now, Sony Pictures Entertainment has turned into an executive torture chamber, with an extraordinary string of firings in its recent past as the studio has struggled to extricate itself from a morass of big budgets, bad box office and fratricidal infighting...
Canton is widely regarded as a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first place. But his twisting-in-the-Santa-Ana-winds demise didn't raise spirits at Sony. And he wasn't the only casualty. On Wednesday Variety confidently reported that Arnold Rifkin, worldwide head of motion pictures for the William Morris Agency, had been offered Canton's job. Many observers were surprised, as Rifkin lacks executive experience. But since joining William Morris nearly four years ago, he has done much to re-energize the agency's sleepy movie business, adding such...