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- <text id=90TT0943>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: Business Notes:Hollywood
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- HOLLYWOOD
- Honesty! What A Concept!
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> An AT&T commercial upbraids consumers: "We're tired of
- taking your crap! If we fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A
- Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United
- Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!"
- In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising
- copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane
- asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by
- Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison
- Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah.
- </p>
- <p> Paramount added zing to the tale by using the names of real
- companies, but ABC and CBS have declined to run some
- commercials for the film because they include fake ads that
- might upset major network advertisers. Paramount pleads that
- the movie is a comedy. Starting this week, moviegoers can make
- that judgment for themselves.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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