There was so little to do in the way of entertainment, Gregory Pence recalled, that "we sometimes got in the car with our parents on Friday nights and followed after the fire truck".
Joel and John Eastman, the entertainment lawyer, recall it differently.
Our tendency to be drawn into the flavor-of-the-month news and entertainment painfully recalls the Roman Empire's dying days when bread and circuses were the politician's favorite tools.
"They're much more careful about doing a movie just because a star wants to do it," said Eric Weissmann, a longtime entertainment lawyer who recalled the days when Warner Brothers made a film, "An Enemy of the People," based on an Ibsen play, largely because Steve McQueen wanted to do it.
"I started thinking [Akira] was more than a great film," Andy Frain, Manga Entertainment's founder, later recalled.
Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Time Warner's current chief and then the chairman of its entertainment and networks group, recalled the dilemma: "CNN had at the time the most comprehensive newsgathering operation.
Micky Lawler, the managing director of tennis for the sports and entertainment marketing company Octagon, recalled taking a vacation with Scott and a group of friends after the Australian Open in the late 1980s.
TV Centre was the "London Palladium of entertainment, the mecca," recalls Grade, settling into a chair at his Chelsea office, those red socks peeking out underneath his suit trousers.
"The war for me was delightful entertainment," he said, recalling with particular fondness the impact one of the German pilotless planes, called V-1's, made when it fell with its explosive charge near his house.
As a child, Estianty often fought with her classmates; in an interview with the weekly entertainment magazine Tabloid Nova, she recalled that, while at Yohanes Gabriel Catholic Elementary School in Surabaya, she once hit a classmate with an object so hard that the classmate began to bleed profusely.
