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...that Michael Ovitz is out of a job, what's he up to? Shopping, for one thing. Recall that Ovitz was dispatched as president of the Walt Disney Co. in December, after 14 unhappy months. His wounds were soothed by a handsome contract settlement worth $130 million, give or take a dollar, depending on the performance of Disney stock...
...strong indie showing seemed a victory for a favorite hero of old Hollywood films: the nervy little guy. That can be misleading, since most of the "independent" companies are owned by media conglomerates: Miramax by the Walt Disney Co., Gramercy (which released Fargo) by Polygram, Fine Line (Shine) by Time Warner. October Films (Secrets & Lies) is partly financed by mighty Allen & Co., but despite rumors that it is open to a takeover bid, Bingham Ray vows to maintain autonomy. "We're at the peak of our game right now as a privately held, true independent," he says...
...mind. Only after 27 rewrites was the script deemed suitably uplifted and dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems...
...mind. Only after 27 rewrites was the script deemed suitably uplifted and dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems...
Given all that, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that this phenomenon sprang from the imagination of a single man (even Walt Disney needed help from the Brothers Grimm). Lucas' offices, as well as many of his filmmaking facilities, are located on Skywalker Ranch, 3,000 mostly pristine acres in the farther reaches of Marin County, 425 miles north of Hollywood. Given the comparative remoteness and Lucas' image in the press as an elusive personality, not to mention the reverential way in which his colleagues and employees often speak about him (one hears a lot of talk...