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- <text id=91TT1749>
- <title>
- Aug. 05, 1991: In the Pipeline
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- In The Pipeline
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Georgia Harbison
- </p>
- <p> In a town with few rules, producers can let their
- imaginations--and development budgets--run wild. A few of
- the stranger projects that are kicking around Hollywood:
- </p>
- <p> THE HEAD (20th Century Fox) A bizarre comedy about a
- wisecracking, bodyless scientist and his eccentric brother and
- how they foil a plot to steal their secret hair-growth formula.
- </p>
- <p> LITTLE ODESSA (Hollywood Pictures) A thriller where
- Madonna winds up in the Soviet Union and gets into trouble with
- the KGB. Calling Dick Tracy...
- </p>
- <p> CHARLIE FINLEY--M.C. HAMMER PROJECT (Imagine) The
- true-life story of the colorful owner of the Oakland A's, who
- hired the future rapmaster as the team's "executive assistant"
- at the age of 11.
- </p>
- <p> MY LIFE AS A WHALE (Interscope) A New York City literary
- agent who's been dumped by his girlfriend finds himself chased
- by marriage-hungry women.
- </p>
- <p> VOODOO (Disney) An innocent middle-class family returns
- from vacation in Jamaica with a voodoo witch doctor who turns
- New York upside down with his bag of tricks.
- </p>
- <p> OCEAN (Columbia) A somewhat autobiographical look at Jack
- Nicholson's days as a lifeguard in the late 1950s, to be
- produced by Penny Marshall. But how will Jack fit into those
- swim trunks?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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