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The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #1: The tyranny of the opening weekend box office
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Zaz
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1/26 6:06pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters --18. Roman Polanski's Lolita episode with a 13-year-old girl
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Getting out of Hollywood probably helped his career...
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Zaz
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2/1 6:19pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters --18. Roman Polanski's Lolita episode with a 13-year-old girl
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...and certainly didn't stop him from winning a Best Oscar for direction for "The Pianist"
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darthdrago
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters --18. Roman Polanski's Lolita episode with a 13-year-old girl
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There's a documentary that just played at Sundance about the Polanski statutory rape case. It claims that there was more to the prosecution (and the judge's decisions) than meets the eye. Can't remember the exact name of the film, though.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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We're playing house!....Roman Polanski's house!
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First of all, I didn't get that Family Guy joke until just now. Thank you kind sir.
Secondly, this is on the front page of MSN news... Weird coincidence?
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JohnWesleyDowney
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First of all, I didn't get that Family Guy joke until just now. Thank you kind sir.
Secondly, this is on the front page of MSN news... Weird coincidence?
There are no "coincidences." 
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NYCitygurl
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2/2 7:54am
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First of all, I didn't get that Family Guy joke until just now. Thank you kind sir.
Secondly, this is on the front page of MSN news... Weird coincidence?
No, MSN picked up on my thread because I'm just that cool and importrant  
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A very probable explaination.
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NYCitygurl
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17. Movie piracy
The MPAA says that the film biz loses $3.5 billion a year due to piracy; between 400,000 and 600,000 movies are swapped on the Internet each day. And new technology to download and burn is just getting cheaper and faster. Three words for the studios: Video on demand. Use it or lose it.
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Zaz
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2/12 5:24pm
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This *is* a real disaster, no question. And not getting better soon.
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Hammurabi
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2/12 6:40pm
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The internet will either destroy or revolutionize the film industry.
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Zaz
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I think it will be perforce the latter.
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ClassicMovieLover
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2/13 12:26pm
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Regarding Ishtar and Beatty: Ishtar is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
It wasn't a conflict between the new head of studio and Beatty, but a grudge he had
on a personal level with director Elaine May as well as making an example out of
the budget thing for future productions to alter the politics of his predecessor.
Ishtar topped the box office for 2 weeks and had favorable reviews at first. When
the killing of the movie started from within the studio who'd financed it, suddenly
the tone of the reviews changed. It was a personal vendetta and the fact that he
could use the blown up budget to introduce his new production policy was a bonus.
The rumors about Beatty's ego being the biggest of Hollywood are just that: rumors.
He can't even hold a candle to the likes of Jackie Gleason, Jerry Lewis, Burt Reynolds
and plenty more.
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Zaz
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2/13 12:32pm
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Who was this person and what grudge did he have against Elaine May? She'd made only one previous movie, I think.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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2/13 2:15pm
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ClassicMovieLover posted:
Regarding Ishtar and Beatty: Ishtar is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
It wasn't a conflict between the new head of studio and Beatty, but a grudge he had
on a personal level with director Elaine May as well as making an example out of
the budget thing for future productions to alter the politics of his predecessor.
Ishtar topped the box office for 2 weeks and had favorable reviews at first. When
the killing of the movie started from within the studio who'd financed it, suddenly
the tone of the reviews changed. It was a personal vendetta and the fact that he
could use the blown up budget to introduce his new production policy was a bonus.
The rumors about Beatty's ego being the biggest of Hollywood are just that: rumors.
He can't even hold a candle to the likes of Jackie Gleason, Jerry Lewis, Burt Reynolds
and plenty more.
I'm assuming the executive you're talking about is the infamous David Putnam who was a terrible choice to run a movie studio. Hollywood ate him alive. I read a book about Putnam's tenure at Columbia and it was a nightmare. He made CHARIOTS OF FIRE as a producer, but Hollywood regarded him as an outsider who wanted to change their entrenched ways. If he'd kept his mouth shut and gone about his business of changing the way things were done, he might have succeeded. Instead he gave constant speeches and interviews where he basically poked a sharp stick in the eyes of the Hollywood establishment (major directors, big stars, the powerful talent agencies) so they couldn't wait to run him out of town. Lesson learned. If you want to do things different in Hollywood, move quietly behind the scenes. Ishtar was just one casualty of Putnam's folly.
Beatty's ego is legendary, but you're right about the vendetta.
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