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...dutiful assistant, is in the midst of a grand tour of China with his new boss, known by the pseudonym Pat in the book, but in real life a fellow named Jack Perkowski, who in the roaring '80s had risen to become head of investment banking at Paine Webber. Theirs is not a sight-seeing tour. They are looking for places to invest millions of dollars that Pat intends to raise back home on Wall Street. They see more than 100 factories. They crisscross China, going to plant after state-owned plant...
...steak dinners: musicals that at least try to provide a fully integrated, emotionally engaging theater experience, with music in the service of a story populated by real human characters. Steak dinners are pretty much off the Broadway menu right now. The few that come along (anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber in the past 15 years) usually get dismissed by the critics and struggle to run for a few months before being escorted to Broadway heaven...
...Lost Boys had introduced him as a promising if lightweight young American director (and before Batman Forever sealed his place in the upper reaches of the Hollywood hierarchy), Schumacher decided to see Broadway's newest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Even before he got the chance, Andrew Lloyd Webber, its composer, called him and mentioned that he wanted to bring the play to the big screen. "Every director in Hollywood wanted to do it," Schumacher recalls. "Because this was already the biggest show in the world." Then he saw it and got hooked. Just the storyline - a deformed composer...
...Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group bought back the rights from Warner Bros., raised the $80 million budget itself, and brought back Schumacher. By then, more than 70 million people had seen the show, which had grossed more than $2.4 billion and ranked as the world's highest-earning piece of live entertainment. "If half of the people who've seen the show see the film," says executive producer Austin Shaw, "it will gross $350 million. And what about the 2.9 billion people who haven't seen it?" Such confidence might explain the decision not to cast big names...
...stroke proved harmless, however, as Ashley Webber, Northeastern’s freshman forward, rolled a shot wide...