Word: film
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that has not stopped him from trying. In addition to writing the score for the upcoming Sidney Lumet film Q and A, Blades has completed acting parts in three movies: Spike Lee's film; The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton; and The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown that features Jack Nicholson as star and director. Nicholson shot around Blades' music tour in order to nab him for the role of Mickey Nice, a Jewish gangster from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think...
...following year Blades launched his film career with Crossover Dreams, in which he starred as Rudy Veloz, a Latin boxer and aspiring singer who makes it big in English-speaking America. The role proved uncannily prescient. The one- two punch of good reviews for Crossover Dreams and a growing chorus of critical acclaim for Buscando America attracted ever larger numbers of English-speaking fans. Blades acknowledges his bilingual audience by making sure the lyrics to his songs are always printed on the jackets in Spanish and English...
...Buchwald, the hard part will be getting the money he thinks he has coming to him. Judge Schneider ordered the studio to pay $250,000 to Buchwald and Alain Bernheim, who was originally scheduled to produce the film. In the next phase of the trial, Buchwald and Bernheim will try to establish a dollar figure for the 19% of the net profits promised them in the 1983 contract. Trouble is, the studio claims that while the movie took in more than $300 million at the box office, it has made no net earnings -- at least according to the arcane accounting...
...will be up to Buchwald and his lawyer to find the profit. Joked Buchwald: "We suspect it's in Gloria Swanson's dressing room." Of the $300 million gross, half was kept by theaters showing the film. The rest went for shooting the picture (one cost estimate: $40 million), distribution fees charged by Paramount ($50 million), studio overhead ($5 million), film prints and promotion ($15 million), Murphy's salary ($8 million) and other expenses...
...network would find a niche on an already crowded cable dial, especially since it would be filled largely with old movies. But TNT, seen today in 37.5 million cable homes, has drawn an enthusiastic cult audience for its treasure trove of MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. movies. Film lovers, who were outraged at Turner for colorizing classics originally released in glorious black-and-white, are now also praising him for unearthing the oeuvres of Warren William, Edna May Oliver and Alfred E. Green. "The demand for classic movies was unrecognized even by our cable partners," says Turner...