Word: michael
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Vice Presidents: Richard W. Angle Jr., Michael J. Klingensmith...
Everything has come up roses for the Roses. Oliver (Michael Douglas) has + made partner at his influential law firm. Barbara (Kathleen Turner) has converted her catering service from busywork to flourishing business. The kids are trouble free and accepted by all the right schools. The last expensive antique has been placed in the last empty space in their exquisitely restored house. In other words, disaster now looms...
...realistic. One imagines them heading for the sort of civilized divorce settlement that people with a fair amount of community property to protect generally work out. No such luck for the Roses. All kinds of good luck for moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Michael Leeson down an increasingly dark and comedically dangerous path. The problem is their house, symbol of everything they have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...