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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 01:16:53 EST
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"Brazil" isn't out of the woods yet.  Univeersal is only planning to give it a
week in LA and a week in NY (and maybe a couple other cities) so that it will
be eligible for this year's Academy awards.  If it doesn't get nominated,
Universal will almost certainly pull out the shears.  Unless the crowds are very
good, the one week run is likely to be all anyone sees of "Brazil" for a while.
Unfortunately for me, I'll be out of town for that week, and Universal isn't
opening it in DC.  Let's hope it does well.  

Also, Terry Gilliam had damned well either win the Oscar for Best Picture or
make  huge amounts of money off "Brazil", or, as the saying goes, "he'll never
work in Hollywood again".  The big bosses don't like to be bucked, and only
put up with it when there's a lot of money or prestige involved.  Every studiohead
for the next decade will remember Gilliam as "that guy who caused trouble at
Universal", and nobody likes a troublemaker (unless, of course, his last film
made money).
-- 
        			Peter Reiher
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