Quotes from Julie Salamon

Costa Gavras, the most totally propagandistic director ever to breathe the air.

Having an interpreter doesn't mean you are getting the right information. Immediately it should raise the red flag.

The executives had also sent the script to Steven Spielberg, whose fantasy films had made him the most commercially successful director in Hollywood. Everyone, including Spielberg, thought he was the wrong choice. However, Warner Bros. sent every script to "Steven" first.

As they pulled up to 88–22 Parsons Boulevard—a large red-brick square

with a night premium of $25–$3o.

The success of "Batman" gave the studio executives a feeling of invincibility. They asked themselves if the movie owed its success to Guber and Peters after all, or if it had really been the star, Jack Nicholson, who'd made it work, or Mark Canton, the chief production executive of Warner Bros.

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, De Palma's fiftieth birthday

Part of his strong attraction to Kathy Lingg had been her little daughter. He'd videotaped the child visiting Disneyland and opening Christmas presents.

and bought a .2z-caliber rifle

She was still an assistant and like assistants all over corporate America, but especially in Hollywood, orderly women like Nevin and Goldstein were quite accustomed to invisibly supplying the warm, personal touch on behalf of their bosses. Thousands of gifts and notes were passed back and forth by powerful people who didn't have a clue that they were being so very thoughtful.

But Walter Matthau had asked $i million

Everybody thinks about film, everybody knows films are made somewhere out there, and it's interesting," he said. "But very little is known about what goes on because all of us lie.

To be sure, it was a loyalty cemented by the io percent the

He greeted the group by turning to Freeman. "We're trying to cut down on the racial imbalance in this movie," he said with a small smile. Freeman responded in kind. "Spread the ethnicity around," he said. He too was smiling, though his eyes were quite serious.

Anyone who had anything got out