The Sun Times from Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • 9

SunUmes mteEltaiSinimeinitt Thursday August 28 1997 Owen Sound Out ON! I High star salaries spook Hollywood THURSDAY AUGUST ifi Acoustic music Open stage hasted by Larry Jensen The Gull's Nest at The Rusty Gull Restaurant EwryThursday 8 to midnight Theatre Cheatin' Hearts 2 pjn matinee 8 pjn Bluewtter Summer Playhouse Kincardine Valdy The Crow! Nest Tbbermory $5 cower Jamboree Hcpwwth legkm Every Thursday 2 to 5 pjn Skip TYscer At Jozo's Blue Mountain Inn Collingwood FRIDAY AUGUST 29 Weekend musk festival 5th Annual Golden Fields Musk Festival at Mar Rode blues folk critic and original musk featuring Iynda Aldridge Morgan Barrie Darafuzz Katie Glelaer Karen Holgate May Ip and Gary Murphjr Larry Jenaen Juke Richard Knechtel Downtown Farmers Trevor McKenzie Paul Mrfwnia Julianna Norrie and more or less Evening concert at 7 Open stage kids area all day $12 weekend $5 evening only Free Camping 534-1039 Walking tour Of historic downtown Owen Sound Leaves the visitor information centre at every Friday in August $2 20 people maximum 371-9833 Variety show Merry Music Makers Country Sunshine Square Dancers and Owen Sound free Proceeds to agricultural society shout fa agents In competition with one another to sign clients Ift a case of "If he can get you $20 million then I can guarantee you $20 million Whoever has the $20-million clients becomes important in the scheme of Hollywood "That means an agent can't even advise a dient to cut fees in order to do a great script because they may lose that actor to another agent who can come along and offer a worse script for more Obst adds sardonically: "Of course a worse script fa going to get you more money because they need vou more to make it work If a movie has nothing going for it other than your presence as star they naturally nave to pay you more for it" Actor Danny DeVito admits not in anything approaching the $20-mil-Ikm category However DeVito has his own production company Jersey Films and he makes it clear that when wearing his hat he hand out this kind of money to anyone else either a weird thing like buying somebody" DeVito says "Nobody who does movies for us will bother asking for $20 mfllicm because they know they gonna get it It would make our kind of small-scale movie are times when an actor fa not always obsessed with money Keanu Reeves turned down $14 mil-lkm for Speed 2 because he want to do another action film and was more interested in touring with his rock group Sylvester Stallone did the current Cop Land for scale and Bruce Willis accepted tiny salaries for Fool and Pulp Fiction because he believed in the projects On die other hand persistent reports say Willis wants a minimum $25 million for Die Hard 4 Krust The Rusty Gull Restaurant 9:30 to 1:30 Jean and Rudy Couture Owen Sound Legion Pig Whistle dance 9 to Karaoke With Lenny's Road Show Every Friday nighLWiarton Legion 9 to 1 Skip Tracer At Jozos Blue Mountain Inn CoQingwood Rattle of The Banda $500 cash prize for top rock and top country band 25 bands in all competing all weekend The Coach Inn 8 pm to 2 pjn tonight Blackwell Hughes Country musk at Back at The Ranch (Old RCA building on 3tdAweE) 9:30 to 1:30 Jeremy Greenhouse and the Greenhouse Effect The Nest Tbber-mory Mldnite Blue Colonol Clarice's Dncm Bay 930 to SATURDAY AUGUST SO Studio tout Of Head and area artists including painters Colleen Crowe and Suzanne Slmmie Sder papier mache artist Karen Murray inlaid wooc marquetry artist Grant Murray and watercolorist Donna Meckbach all at Gallery Other studios indude painter Stuart Buigeaa iron artist Ab Bo-ley abstract expressionist Elizabeth Tazker potters May and Morris Per-riinnalt Imvtaupwt Geoffrey Nixon potter Mew Ragan artists Lin fintiliera and Caxl Bell Gwen Bridge Pike Bay multi-media artist Arysa Branden and woodworkers Rick and Wendy Roman 10 am to 5 pjn Weekend musk festival 5th Annual Golden Fields Musk Festival at Mar Rock blues folk Celtic and original musk featuring Iyuda Aldridge Mbsgan Barrie Darafuzz Katie Glelaer Karen Holgate May Ip and Gary Murphy Larry Jenaen Juice Richard Knechtel Downtown Farmers Trevor McKenzie Paul Meinnla Julianna Norrie and more or less Evening concert at 7 Open stage ldds area all day $12 weekend $5 evening only Flee Camping 534-1039 Big band dance Stardust Big Band Southampton Annex 8:30 pjn to midnight I12J50 Proceeds to Southampton Minor Hockey Concert The Phoenix Quartet featuring Pamela Attariwala Nancy Borusiewich violins Mary McGeer viola Laura Jones cello Works by Somers Haydn and Brahms Leith Church 7:30 pm Tickets $10 376-1924 371' 5316 BY JAMIE PORTMAN Southam Newspapers LOS ANGELES The time was 1987 The setting: a high-level meeting in a 20th Century-Fax boardroom The subject of the gathering: a new movk called Die Hard which was about logo into production Producer Lawrence Gordon arrived with good news for studio brass: Bruce Willis had agreed to star in the film But he also had bad news: Willis wouldn't do it for a cent less than $5 million "When I told the powm that be at Fox that the only way we could get Bruce would be for $5 million they went Gordon recalls with a chuckle 1 wasn't nervous at all about paying that much but of course it want my Ten yean later a $5-millkm acting fee from someone such as Willis seems like small change These days Hollywood is brooding over the fact that your average asking price is $20 million and that if Willis agrees to do a fourth Die Hard movie he coukl end up getting wen more If that happens Gotdon says have the same response for studio bosses as he did a decade ago "When you have a film and going to be a big-budget film you have an obligation not to take chances You have to get the best person for that film because your obligation to make sure that the people who put out all that money are going to get it back You have to say 1 want that Gordon felt vindicated when Die Hard and its two sequels went on to earn more titan $300 million in North America alone But he admits that when Willis's original $5-million salary was made public There was a shock heard around the He agrees there were further shockwaves two years ago when Jim Carrey received $20 million for The Cable Guy but he also makes dear that as a producer never lost sleep over paycheques When Gordon read a report in die show business weekly Vfcriety several months ago saying studios were tigging in their heels and determined to hold the line at $20 million he shook his head in disbelief 1 don't drink there is an end in sight for star salaries and I don't think the situation is out of controL I think the way this business is" Not all of colleagues me as accepting Producer Lynda Obit (Sleepless in Seattle) is convinced that ego plain and simple is at the root of these salary demands and that it stems from both stars and their agents "Ego is part of the commerce of Obst have a very we choose to box-office returns in the past couple of yean have raised doubts about one of die most sacred pieces of industry dogma: that big money is justified for any star with the clout to a movie on its crucial first weekend and thereby ensure its box-office success One of die most notorious examples is Carrey whose record paycheque for The Cable Guy save a movie that flopped The reported $12 million Sandra Bullock received to guarantee the success of Speed 2 also proved money ill spent: I 1B070S UHfaMBasafiMMl (M Show Snw IPPIOD Mel Gibson Is among a small group of Mist stars that can command high salaries of about $20 million per film tiie film was one of biggest box-office disappointments Variety says Hollywood power brokers have tried to take a strong stand on star salaries because they need to restore their financial credibiutywfth nervous bankers and investors But it Ses one unnamed agent as the $20-million barrier is i ly a psychological one that will inevitably be broken a view backed ly Disney chairman Joe Roth who told Entertainment Weekly magazine recently that "since the movie business is not run by a single mind these purported are not really real in the first Superstars now receiving $20 million per film almost as a matter of course include Willis Ibm Cruise Sylvester Stallone Carrey Arnold Schwarzenegger Mel Gibson John lYavolta and Harrison Ford Variety suspects that in i cases the line has already been hut that studios conceal the actual ure that has been paid out which allow back-door residuals One example: Schwarzenegger reportedly walked off with a minimum $25 million for his six -weeks of work as Mr Freeze in Batman and Robin When it comes to breaching that $20-million barrier publicly Gibson appears to be the one closest to bringing it off because Warner Bros is desperate for him do a new Lethal Weapon movie and Gibson has repeatedly said no to reprising the -character at erratic cop Martin Riggs a role he last played in 1992 In the spring there was a widespread report that Gibson had turned down $35 million to do the role a story Joel Silver producer of the Lethal Weajxm movies calls ridiculous a great guy to work with he's smart and a lot of fun" Silver says he wants to make a movie -make a deaL not a question of enticing him with But Silver does confirm that Gibson dual fig-through allow for ncm Sll ANB 17111 Mn A wMIra aMi FhH fair dance A1 Orchestra 9 pjn Meafotd Community Centre $12 per couple Pipe bend parade Kincardine Pipe Band parade down Queen to Quinn Plaza back for coiKert in Victoria Park Neon Riders Labor Day Weekend pork roast and poker run Starts at Evies Sports Cafe to Wiartui and Sauble Beach $lQpereon $5hand Ends with party at John Fanen farm at Kilsyth Wfctdi for signs Band starts at 8 Sponsored by Georgian Bay ABATE Earl Geocgaa Alpha Jazz Band Every Saturday until Labor Day 2 to 5:30 pjn at Kincardine Impressionist Gary McGffl The Harp and Whistle Kincardine 9 to 1 3964133 mm fTTSSEE is finally ready to do Lethal Weapon 4 although he won't comment on me latest reports saying the new movie could ram Gibson as much as $40 million $20 million upfront and guarantees of between $15 million and $20 million as percentages of die gross Iynda Obst argues that salaries have been driven up because of intense competition among high-powered Hollywood agencies to keep their clients happy-fhe situation has set off a free-for-all" Obst says "What this is realty mocai touss $74196 Movto Info Una OPEN EVERY WTB KIDS FttEEl Ltavt it to Beavtn Rob McLean and Connie Sinclair Harrison Park Inn 8 to 1L Blackwell Hughes Country musk at Back at The Ranch (Old RCA building on 3rd Ave E) Matinee 2 to 5 pm Evening 9:30 to 1:30 Jeremy Greenhouse and the Greenhouse Effect The Crow's Nest Tbber-mory Battle of The Bands $500 cash prize for top rock and top country band 25 bands in all competing all weekend The Coach Inn Noon to 2 un Alfle and Ddla Frontager Hepworth Legioa 3 to 7 pjn Slow Hand Southampton Legkm 3 to 7 pjn Cactui Leather Wiarton Legion 3 to 6 pan Skip Tracen At Jam's Blue Mountain Inn CoQingwood Kanmke With Don Kelly 3 to 7 pm Roadhouse Port Elgin Mldnite Blue Colonol Cbrket Dnera Stake's Bay 930 to SUNDAY AUGUST 81 Weekend musk festival 5th Annual Golden Fields Musk Festival at Mar Rock bhieti folk celtic and original musk featuring Iynda Aldridge Morgan Barrie Darafuzz Katie Glelaer Karen Holgate May Ip and Gary Murphy Larry Jensen Juice Richard Knechtel Downtown Farmers Trevor McKenzie Paul Mdrmia Julianna Norrie and more or less Evening concert at 6:30 Open stage kids area all day $12 weekend $5 evening only Free Camping 534-1039 Musk Festival Gordon Mooney and The Moonbeams Bolkal Point lyn-da Aldridge Jimmy Collins May Ip and gary Murphy Pat Carrier and Andy Vare Brendan McGuirk Big Bay general Store 1:30 to 10 pjn Battle of The Bands $500 cash prize for top rock and top country band 25 bands in all competing ail weekend The Coach Inn Noon to 2 am Owen Sound City Band Directed by Bob BdL Harrison Park Band ShdL 230 pjn Blackwell Hughes Country musk at Back at The Ranch (Old RCA building on 3rd Ave E) 9:30 to 1:30 Muaic Maltin' Moms 7:30 pm St Andrew's Presbyterian Church AllenfonL Bring lawnchairs Dave and Trish Hawkins 2 to 4 pjn The Tnin Station at Wiartonli beach park Ahimnae Jam seasion The Qowk Nen Tbbennory Mldnite Blue Colonel Clarke's "Ifevein Stake's Bay 9:30 to 1 SldpTYacerAt Joan's Blue Mountain Inn CollingwwxL MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1 Virgil Scott At Blue Mountain Inn ColHngwood TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Virgil Scott Blue Mountain Inn CoQingwood WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 Oiihestrzband concert Youth Wind Orchestra Kupe from Gennany Owen Sound City Band 7130 pm OSCVI Auditorium Adults $8 dooc Seniors and students Tickets at the Rocking Horse Youth Wind Orchestra Kupe preview concert at Heritage Place 2:30 and 3: 15 Jam session Every Wednesday Rock blues folk whatever Everyone welcome Iters Range Road Diner MeafbnL Jamboree Wiarton Legkm Every Wednesday 2 to 5 pjn Karaoke With Blaine and Tina Every Wednesday at The Coach Inn Karaoke With Lefmya Road Show Every Wednesday night Restaurant and Lounge Saubie Beach VlrgO Scott At Blue Mountain Inn CoOingwood THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4 Acoustic musk Open stage hotted by Larry Jenaen The Gulfs Nest at The Rusty GuD Restaurant Every Thursday 8 to midnight Jamboree Hepwonh Legion Every Thursday 2 to 5 pjn VhgO Scott At Blue Mountain Inn Collingwood 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