Word: successful
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...made little difference to Hollywood, which, above all, worships success, and Begelman was wildly successful. As an agent, he was an expert at "packaging"-bringing directors, actors, writers and producers together into deals that would produce profitmaking blockbuster films. In 1973, when Columbia was floundering from huge losses and debilitating debts, Begelman was tapped for the studio's presidency, and brought out a string of flicks that restored Columbia to financial health (net income for the fiscal year ending last June was $34.6 million). Among his big moneymakers...
Shampoo, The Deep, Funny Lady and Tommy. Columbia's latest winner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind* may outgross 20th Century-Fox's Star Wars as the biggest box-office success of all time...
...come to the U.S. as an immigrant and was a parish priest in Baltimore for seven years. He had a taste for worldly things, a born manager's grasp of commerce and a literary flair. IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS, another Carcich flyer began, MESSENGERS OF HOPE. His success was astounding-almost like the miracle of the loaves and fishes...
...findings were not altogether encouraging. As a director of the Institute for American Church Growth in Pasadena, Calif., Arn advocates a "bottom line" analysis of evangelism. In his eyes, the only reliable measure of any crusade's success is the number of people who become "responsible church members." In 1976 a Billy Graham crusade drew 434,100 people to Seattle's Kingdome in eight days, and 18,000 people "came forward" to profess faith in Christ. Arn's survey, done a year later and just released, reveals that of these, 54% were people simply rededicating themselves...
...Stigwood hopes. Grease, the film version of the long-running Broadway play, will be the first out, and is probably the safest bet. Set in a '50s high school, it stars Pop Singer Olivia Newton-John and Travolta, who has already scored a huge success as a '70s greaser in Saturday Night Fever. "It's going to be a '70s look at the '50s," says Director Randal Kleiser. "Stylistically, the actors will stop and break into song-that's old-but we are using all the '70s film techniques we can muster, like...