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All true - plus 30+ years of corporate takeover starting with Guber-Peters selling MGM to Matsushita and letting the intergalactic widgetmakers get their nose under the tent flap.

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I thought Paramount was the first studio entity to sell out to Big Oil, but maybe it's just the first one I remember.

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Yes - Gulf & Western - but those guys pretty much let the movie-making alone. ' But the intrergalactic widget-makers with their demand for a 10+ ROI and their lack of care about quality (it's just another widget) are what got us to Super Heroes only to attract the teenagers.

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