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The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #1: The tyranny of the opening weekend box office
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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7/11 1:30pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #5: Movie star salary inflation
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The huge expense of a star means that fewer risks are taken, and that's the down side.
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Jabbadabbado
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Date Posted:
7/11 2:12pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #5: Movie star salary inflation
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I wonder if this has really changed as much as people think. I doubt Charlie Chaplin or Mary Pickford or Douglas Fairbanks were earning a smaller share of the movie revenue pie than Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks or Will Smith at their respective peaks.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
7/13 8:37pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #5: Movie star salary inflation
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Chaplin and Pickford aren't good examples because they started their own studio (United Artists)
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NYCitygurl
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4. Never giving Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant an Oscar.
The Academy has made mistakes in its 77-year existence (the Oscar for Best Picture goes to . . . Chicago?), but none are as egregious as never calling the name of either Hitchcock or Grant. And no, honorary Oscars don't count.
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Zaz
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7/16 8:22pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #4: Never giving Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant an Oscar
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Oh, no kidding.
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7/16 8:24pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #4: Never giving Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant an Oscar
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People would be saying the same thing about Scorsese in 20 years if the Departed didn't come along.
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7/16 8:59pm
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Warren Beatty has a directing Oscar and Hitchcock doesn't?
Cuba Gooding Jr. has an acting Oscar and Cary Grant doesn't?
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it'd be lol if Michael Bay won an oscar.
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Zaz
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7/20 9:08am
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #4: Never giving Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant an Oscar
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Only three comedies won a Best Actor Oscar in the history of the Oscars.
And Hitchcock didn't direct the sort of movies that the Academy liked--no uplift.
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #4: Never giving Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant an Oscar
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3. Death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Lee, and six-year-old Renee Chen were killed by a helicopter run amok amid blinding F/X explosions as director John Landis allegedly screamed "Lower! Lower! Lower!" at the pilot. Landis stood trial for involuntary manslaughter and walked away a free man.
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #3: Death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie
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I understand Spielberg and other Hollywood bigwigs, friends of Landis and producers of the film, came to his rescue, convincing the judge to go easy on him. I also understand Landis was using live ammunition on the set, and directing the pilot to fly lower than legal safety standards permit. Interestingly, apart from Coming to America (and possibly Three Amigos), Landis has not made a good movie since the disaster.
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Zaz
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #3: Death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie
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The publicity was very bad indeed, the accident permanently damaged Landis' career, and made Hollywood directors look like the megalomaniacs a good many of them are.
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #3: Death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie
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Zaz posted:
The publicity was very bad indeed, the accident permanently damaged Landis' career, and made Hollywood directors look like the megalomaniacs a good many of them are.
Indeed, between this and Heaven's Gate, these were low points for directors.
From Wikipedia:
During the filming of Twilight Zone, actor Vic Morrow and child extras Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen were killed in an accident involving an out of control helicopter. Landis and several crew members were subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. The prosecutors attempted to show that Landis was reckless and had violated laws relating to child actors by not telling parents and others of the children's proximity to explosives and helicopters and of limitations on their working hours. Numerous members of the film crew testified that the director was warned, but ignored these dangers. After an extended jury trial, Landis, represented by famed Nashville attorney James F. Neal, and the other crew members on trial were acquitted of the charges.
Landis was later reprimanded for circumventing the State of California's child labor laws in hiring the two children killed in the accident. This tragedy resulted in stricter safety measures and enforcement of child labor laws, in the State of California.
The parents of the children sued, and would later settle out of court for $2 million per child. Vic Morrow's daughters, Carrie Morrow and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, similarly pursued a lawsuit that settled for an undisclosed amount purportedly in the $800,000 range.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
7/25 10:03am
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #3: Death on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie
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'$2 Million per child'
That's cold. 
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'$2 Million per child'
That's cold.
Isn't that the going rate of a child on the black market?
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