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Entertainment
The Battalion • Page 9
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NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Spiel-
blrg, whose dino-thriller “Jurassic
Park” grossed more than S900 million at
the box office, has bumped Oprah Win-
fley as the highest-paid entertainer,
Forbes reported Sunday.
The 46-year-old director-producer, who
ared S100 from his first feature film,
[ade when he was 16, will make an esti-
ated 1993-94 total of S335 million, the
agazine said in its Sept. 26 issue.
That’s a record for the eight years
Forbes has been compiling the list of the
p 40 best-paid entertainers. The previ-
record of S200 million was set by
ichael Jackson in 1988-89.
Television talk-show hostess Winfrey,
Jho became the first woman to head the
Forbes Top 40 Entertainers list last
year, came in as No. 2 this year with a
cbmbined estimated 1993-94 take of
Si 05 million.
I Forbes says basing its ranking on com
bined two-year estimated gross earnings
provides a more accurate assessment of
an entertainer’s overall income, which
can change capriciously from year to year.
Winfrey was followed by another
Jurassic-era phenom, Barney, the purple,
roly-poly, oversized dinosaur who delights
3-year-olds and irks some adults with his
syrupy public television show. When
1993-94 sales from toys, cassettes, lunch-
boxes, underpants and other merchandise
are calculated, Barney will amass $84
million for creator Sheryl Leach and her
father-in-law publisher, Richard Leach.
“In Hollywood it’s the year of the di
nosaur,” Forbes said in its cover story.
It said Spielberg’s take from “Jurassic
Park” alone will total about $250 million
after the video is released in October, by
far the most any individual has ever
made from a movie.
The dinosaur isn’t the only aged theme
in this year’s ranking, which also is popu
lated by a number of pop-music relics who
went back on tour to enthusiastic crowds
and made the list for the first time.
Pink Floyd came in as No. 4, with a
combined 1993-94 take of $62 million.
Barbra Streisand, who lured fans willing
to pay $1,000 apiece for her first public
singing appearances in nearly three
decades, was No. 6, at $57 million.
After a bitter 14-year split, the Eagles
reunited with a tour and album that won
them the No. 7 spot at $56 million. The
Rolling Stones, led by middle-aged rock
ers Mick dagger and Keith Richards pro
moting their new album, grabbed the No.
9 spot at $53 million.
Filling out the Top 10:
— No. 5 Bill Cosby, a Forbes Top-40
stalwart who gets profits from “The Cosby
Show” reruns as well as a stake in his
new TV venture, “The Cosby Mysteries,”
had 1993-94 earnings of $60 million.
— No. 8 was magician David Copper-
field at $55 million.
— No. 10 is the highest-paid actor on
the list, Harrison Ford, who drew in audi
ences for his role as the framed doctor in
“The Fugitive” and a reticent CIA officer
in “Clear and Present Danger.” He moved
up from No. 29 last year with a combined
1993-94 take of $44 million.
Other first-time entries in this year’s
list include bombastic radio commenta
tor Rush Limbaugh (No. 36, $25 mil
lion), and TV sitcom pillar Roseanne
(No. 40, $23 million.)
The magazine attributed Spielberg’s
unparalleled success partly to the terms
of his contracts to produce or direct films:
He assumes none of the costs.
Moreover, rather than accept a per
centage of the profits, Spielberg gets a
percentage of the box-office revenue.
This means he profits whether a film
bombs or not.
Although Spielberg described himself
in an interview with Forbes as a gambler
in the entertainment world, the magazine
said “that’s not quite true. The difference
between Spielberg’s gambling and yours
and mine is that he can’t lose. The ques
tion isn’t whether he’s going to make
money, but how much.”
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The CBS program won two other major Emmys —
supporting dramatic actress for Leigh Taylor-Young and
supporting dramatic actor for Fyvush Finkel — and five
overall including Saturday’s non-televised awards.
“NYPD Blue” won the most total Em
mys — six — but failed to connect as best
drama series, for which it was favored.
Its biggest win was by Dennis Franz for
best dramatic actor, defeating departing
co-star David Caruso.
“I am extremely touched right now,”
said Franz.
The new NBC comedy “Frasier,” with
“Cheers” veteran Kelsey Grammer
reprising his role as a weary psychiatrist,
won both best comedy series and best
comic actor for Grammer — his first
Emmy win.
“We’re all having so much fun doing
this, we can’t believe you’re going to give
us an award for this,” said “Frasier” co
producer David Angell.
CBS won the network race with a total
of 26 Emmys, including Saturday’s non-
televised awards. NBC was second with
14. ABC had 13.
Sela Ward of NBC’s “Sisters” won best
dramatic actress for her role as the free-
spirited artist Teddy Reed. Her defeat of
AP/Tracie Tso
Angela Lansbury in the category brought the “Murder,
She Wrote” veteran a dubious honor: with 14 nomina
tions and no wins Lansbury is tied with soap actress Su
san Lucci for Emmy futility.
Candice Bergen of CBS’ “Murphy Brown” won best
comedy actress.
Kirstie Alley won her second career Emmy, lead ac
tress in a miniseries or special, for playing the mother of
an autistic child in the CBS television movie “David’s
Mother.” The CBS movie won two others, for writing and
supporting actor, Michael Goorjian.
The Emmy audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditori
um was reminded of the death earlier in the day of vet
eran actress Jessica Tandy at age 85.
“Your friends in television say goodbye to you
tonight,” said actor John Lithgow. “We will all miss you
very, very much.”
Tandy was nominated but lost to Alley, but in a bit
tersweet victory Tandy’s husband Hume Cronyn won for
lead actor in a miniseries or special for
“Hallmark Hall of Fame: To Dance With the White
Dog” on CBS.
David Letterman’s new CBS variety show tri
umphed in its first year on the network. The former
NBC star said, “I don’t need to tell you folks: There’s
been a huge mistake!” He also thanked “anybody
drawing breath right now.”
Laurie Metcalf of “Roseanne” and Michael Richards of
Please see Emmys, Page 10
Jessica Tandy
dies of cancer
at age 85
NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica
Tandy, who won an Academy
Award at age 80 for her por
trayal of a spirited Southern
matriarch in “Driving Miss
Daisy,” died Sunday at her
Connecticut home after a four-
year battle with ovarian can
cer. She was 85.
Her husband, actor Hume
Cronyn, was by her side when
she died about 6 a.m., Leslee
Dart, the couple’s press agent,
said in announcing the death.
Tandy’s acting career
spanned more than 60 years,
mostly on stage in New York
and London. She was Broad
way’s original Blanche DuBois
in the memorable 1947 produc
tion of Tennessee Williams’ “A
Streetcar Named Desire” that
co-starred Marlon Brando as
Stanley Kowalski.
Some of her best-known
stage appearances were with
Cronyn, her second husband.
Together they starred on
Broadway in such plays as
“The Fourposter,” “The Physi
cists,” “A Delicate Balance,”
“Noel Coward in Two Keys,”
“The Gin Game,” “Foxfire”
and “The Petition.”
The actress won three Tony
awards, Broadway’s highest
honor — first for “Streetcar” in
1948, then “The Gin Game” in
1978 and “Foxfire” in 1983.
But it was as Daisy Werthan,
the independent, crotchety wid
ow who forms a deep friendship
with her black chauffeur, that
Tandy scored her biggest popu
lar success. “Driving Miss
Daisy,” adapted from Alfred
LIhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
play, was a box-office and artis
tic hit, grossing more than $100
million and winning a best-pic
ture Oscar in 1990 as well as the
top acting award for Tandy.
“I’m not a big movie name,
and I knew they needed some
one who was bankable,” Tandy
said at the time. “Certainly, in
films, I’ve played small sup
porting
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