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- May 20, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- The Peters Principle
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- <p> Jon Peters' way with a checkbook is no less legendary in
- Hollywood than are his films (Batman, Rain Man). Two years ago,
- when Columbia's new owner, Sony, hired Peters and partner Peter
- Guber to head the studio, the pair's deliriously lucrative deal
- ($200 million for their production company alone) set a
- Hollywood record. Soon the partners were spending money as fast
- as the Treasury could print it: $40 million for Warren Beatty's
- Bugsy, $50 million for Steven Spielberg's Hook. Peters, 44, also
- became known for such extravagances as spending $80,000 on a
- colleague's surprise party and delivering flowers to his
- girlfriend--by jet.
- </p>
- <p> So that weird whistling sound heard throughout Hollywood
- last week may have been the collective sigh of relief from
- Columbia's bookkeepers upon learning that Peters is stepping
- down. Said to be dissatisfied with his deskbound duties, the
- former hairdresser is launching an independent company that will
- produce projects exclusively for Sony. What they will cost
- remains to be seen.
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