91.   Most studio executives are eager to turn a best-seller into a film or hire big stars like Kevin Costner or Jim Carrey.

92.   Most top studio executives found it riveting but uncommercial.

93.   Movie studio executives vacationing in Hawaii, New York and various western ski resorts faced some bleak news over the holiday season.

94.   Michael Ovitz, studio executive.

95.   Movie studio executives, who are generally overpaid and overstressed, are also overwhelmed with panic as the New Year begins.

96.   Much to the consternation of studio executives, he also posts advance peeks at test screenings throughout the country and glimpses of screenplays in progress.

97.   Next scene, the producer, no longer as prosperous, is pitching a studio executive.

98.   Not only did the Almighty listen to Kael, according to Demme even studio executives did.

99.   Not helping matters, he adds, were the mixed messages that he was getting from studio executives and the unrealistic expectations they had for the show.

100.   Not so, say studio executives.