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‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations

The seventh film in the 27-year-old movie franchise was No. 1 at the box office, taking in $80 million over its first five days. But the movie industry was hoping for more.

By Brooks Barnes

Actors and Actresses Advertising and Marketing Box Office Sales Cruise, Tom Movies Paramount Pictures SAG-AFTRA Strikes Summer (Season)

‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations

The seventh film in the 27-year-old movie franchise was No. 1 at the box office, taking in $80 million over its first five days. But the movie industry was hoping for more.

By Brooks Barnes

Advertising and Marketing Black Entertainment Television Black People Cable Television Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Minorities Paramount Pictures Television VH1 Viacom Inc

Third Black-Owned Company Emerges as Suitor for BET

Black Entertainment Television made the first Black billionaire in the United States. Will a Black executive buy it back?

By Benjamin Mullin

Actors and Actresses Deaths (Obituaries) Golden Globes (Awards) Movies Paramount Pictures Playboy Magazine Santa Barbara (TV Program) Stevens, Stella The Nutty Professor (Movie) The Poseidon Adventure (Movie) Twentieth Century Fox

Stella Stevens, Hollywood Bombshell Who Yearned for More, Dies at 84

She starred alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. But she wanted to direct and write, and she felt held back by industry sexism.

By Clay Risen