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...made his mark, if not his name, in movies too. Sister Act, the Whoopi Goldberg comedy for which Rudnick wrote the original script, was last summer's boffo surprise. Other hands diluted the screenplay, which Rudnick eventually signed with the pseudonym Joseph Howard; but the movie grossed $140 million, so now, "although there is no Joseph Howard, his career is soaring." Rudnick's uncredited rewrite of The Addams Family ($115 million) is "the reason that movie was a hit," says Scott Rudin, who produced it and Sister Act and who hired Rudnick to write the sequel, Addams Family Values...
...Mike Ovitz so powerful? Very simple: most of the really big movie stars are represented by him and his agency, including Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Bill Murray, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams. They also represent most of the top directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and John Hughes. And most of the top screenwriters. The only weak spot, according to one of those reticent studio chiefs, is in music; there, CAA's client roster is peopled by such nobodies as Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson and Madonna...
Well, women do get out of the house, as indicated by two surprise hits of 1992: Sister Act, whose star, Whoopi Goldberg, could earn a man-size $7.5 million for the sequel, and Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. Now, says Obst, "it's easier for me to pitch movies that are close to my heart because I have more models I can point...
More than 500 people lined Mass. Ave. yesterday afternoon to watch actress Whoopi Goldberg in the 41st annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year parade...
...Whoopi is one of the hottest women in Hollywood right now," said Pudding producer Karla M. Picardo...