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While outsiders often have trouble adapting to Hollywood's insular ways, Sony appeared decisive and savvy last week. Columbia CEO Victor Kaufman and chief operating officer Lewis Korman announced that they would be leaving once the deal was set. At the same time, Sony said it agreed to pay $200 million to buy Guber-Peters Productions. One of the hottest producer teams in Hollywood, Peter Guber, 47, a former Columbia production executive, and Jon Peters, 42, who got his start as a hairdresser to the stars, produced Rain Man for United Artists and Batman for Warner Bros...
Sony reportedly hopes to put the two hitmakers in top posts at Columbia, but that courtship raises some knotty questions about how the two would fulfill their existing obligations. Guber and Peters recently renewed an exclusive five-year production agreement with Warner Bros. Already in the works under that contract are a sequel to Batman, a film adaptation of Bonfire of the Vanities and other projects. Sony's first creative challenge may be negotiating a deal under which rival Warner gets its hits and Guber and Peters are given a shot at jump-starting Columbia. Now that Sony has paid...
...spite his critics, Marcos became truly ill and died last week at 72. Imelda once said she might refuse to bury him unless Manila allowed her to bring the corpse home. But though Aquino had flags lowered to half-staff, she reiterated that Marcos, even in death, would remain an exile for an unspecified time. As Philippine forces girded for protests by Marcos loyalists, Washington banned planes from flying his remains to the islands...
...baby chase is on. Would-be parents must be relentless and infinitely flexible. Many turn to open adoption, some allow the birth mother a continuing role in their family. Meanwhile, burgeoning numbers of children who are older, not white, or handicapped wait and wait for a family and a home...
From the start, Lynn recalls, Vanessa weathered the rackety Redgraves with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing...