Peter McAlevey
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My Toronto — and Yours, Nick Lowe’s, Cindy Chvatal’s, Billy Petersen’s, Etc.
Stange bedfellows, pop songs, studio shenanigans and CBS’ $500,000-an-episode man
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Whose Captain America Is It? … and a Final Note on Hanoi Jane
In my Captain America (aka “Easy Rider”), weren’t the bad guys the forces of plutocracy and repression that under the guise of the Nixon’s Southern strategy conspired to culture-nap America and hand it back to the racist rednecks?
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The Greatest Sequel Never Made
“Flatliners 2” seemed like a sure thing, with everyone wanting it — here’s why it never happened
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Michael Eisner and the L.A. Times—A Marriage Made in Heaven?
I should know: In my nefarious career, I worked for both the L.A. Times and Michael Eisner
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‘Expendables’ Should Try On ‘Kashmir’
“The Expendables” is not only reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen,” but a never-made, ahead-of-its-time action concept
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Tom & Tom and the (Auto)biography of ‘Knight and Day’
Marketing chief Tony Sella really isn’t to blame for the movie’s flopping; look a little higher up the executive ladder at Fox
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‘Flatliners’ and the Long-Forgotten Secret Woid: Profitable
We went for high concept, paid top dollar for a script and hired a fledgling cast: Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon
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A Time and a Place: Steve Reuther, R.I.P.
Steve’s death reminds me of is of a time in Hollywood that wasn’t all about Ari Gold racing down the halls screaming “L-l-l-l-oyd”
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3D: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Those gimmicks didn’t work then, folks, and they won’t work for longer than a year or two now
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Army, Where Are You Now That We Need You — Part Deux: Raquel Welch
You can’t judge books — or women — by their fur bikinis
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Who Says There Are No Second Acts? Part II
Dennis Hopper has proved that statement wrong
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Who Says There Are No Second Acts? Malcolm McLaren and Dennis Hopper
Rebels have lived long enough to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald wrong
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How Movie-Futures Trading Could Bring (Gasp!) Truth to Hollywood
You can lie to the press, to your actors, to your wife … but this could send you to jail
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Pam Anderson Was a Friend of Mine
It hit me why we’d been invited to their son’s birthday party — we were the only family with kids they knew
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What Tarantino Owes to ‘Greenberg’
Noah Baumbach told his mother that Quentin was the real deal, and that led to …
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