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070609-N-4009P-669 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jun. 9, 2007) – In the grandstand at Nashville Superspeedway, Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) watch as the Federated Auto Parts 300 is concluded with a fireworks display. Four Sailors were sent to represent Ronald Reagan as the fleet honoree for the NASCAR Busch Series race. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joe Painter (RELEASED)
I have thought a lot of this photo of Phoebe walking down a runway in her portrayal of a fashion model in the movie, "Bright Lights, Big City." I must have made that element to this movie to connect her work with my work, such as how I flew a fighter jet down a runway to take off. That is also probably why she had such short hair in the movie. It reflects that I was in the military. I don't recall ever seeing this movie but I read the star is a cocaine and I bet that has something to do with me and Coca-Cola. One reason is that I like to drink Coke, another is that I probably have a large financial stake in the Coca-Cola corporation, judging by something about that corporation owning a movie studio back then.
http://gallery.phoebe-cates.com/v/movies/bright_lights/bright11.jpg.html
I also noted that the premier of this movie might have been timed to reflect my escape from where I was being held as a Prisoner of War in Libya. The basic story in this movie, though, I probably contributed to before I left in 1986. I also am quite certain I know Michael J. Fox somehow. We might be related somehow. Maybe we are cousins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Lights_Big_City
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 film staring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates.
Michael J. Fox plays a sympathetic cocaine addict in the movie of Jay McInerney's popular novel Bright Lights, Big City, the book that famously chronicled the coke- and cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Jamie Conway (Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. The movie captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.
I have noted several times that the image of the woman in the logo reminds me of a girlfriend named Rhonda Rochelle Ramsey. I think I "remember" that detail of her because her initials R.R.R. make me think of three R's, which sounds similar to TriStar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American division of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). SPE is a part of Japanese electronics giant Sony.
The Coca-Cola Years and Tri-Star
With a healthier balance-sheet, Columbia was bought by Coca-Cola in 1982 (they had also considered buying the struggling Walt Disney Productions).[citation needed] Coca-Cola management announced there would be no X-rated films from Columbia, yet in 1984 the studio released Body Double, which came close to receiving the rating. Studio head Frank Price mixed big hits like Tootsie and Ghostbusters with many, many costly flops. Under Coke, Columbia acquired Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio's Embassy Pictures division Embassy Television (included Tandem Productions) in 1985, mostly for its library of highly successful television series. Expanding its television franchise, Columbia also bought Merv Griffin's game-show empire the following year, including the rights to Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.
TriStar Pictures was founded in 1982, as a joint venture between Columbia, HBO, and CBS.
To share the increasing cost of film production, Coke brought in two outside investors whose earlier efforts in Hollywood had come to nothing. In 1982, Columbia, Time Inc.'s HBO and CBS announced, as a joint venture, Nova Pictures; this enterprise was to be renamed Tri-Star Pictures. CBS dropped out of the venture in 1984, and in 1987, HBO did as well. That same year, Tri-Star entered into the television business as Tri-Star Television. In December 1987, Columbia Pictures bought their venture shares and merged Columbia and Tri-Star into Columbia Pictures Entertainment. (The Tri-Star name would soon be revised as TriStar.) Other small-scale, "boutique" entities were created: Nelson Entertainment, a joint venture with British and Canadian partners; Triumph Films, jointly owned with French studio Gaumont; and Castle Rock Entertainment. Recognizing the importance of the overseas market, in 1986, Columbia recruited British producer David Puttnam to head the studio. He alienated the film-production community upon his arrival by denouncing Hollywood's taste for froth. With few friends and fewer hits, his stay at Columbia was Hobbesian: nasty, brutish, and short. The volatile film business made Coke shareholders nervous, and following the box-office failure of Ishtar, Coke spun off its entertainment holdings in 1987, creating a stand-alone company called Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.
