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Article: On-line with Hollywood
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 8, 1994
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Joel Silver, the louder-than-life movie producer known for gracing
the culture with such big-bang action hits as "Die Hard" and "Lethal
Weapon," popped up on the information highway the other night, eerily
voiceless. Silver, mind you, is the model Hollywood uses whenever it
wants to throw onscreen everybody's idea of the steamroller producer.
You maybe saw him satirized by Steve Martin in "Grand Canyon" and
Albert Brooks in the current "I'll Do Anything."
Now here he was on America Online, the computer network, taking
questions from a handful of critics scattered around the country,
with subscribers permitted to eavesdrop. The way it played out, the
process was more like an electronic Ouija ...