While in the office, she's mistaken for a studio exec and passes off her homework to a studio reader.

I know for a fact he got his foot in the door by selling coke to studio execs.

Video sales were cutting into box office, and big studio execs were ever more cautious.

"No business, no studio execs - just stories to be told," she explained.

How will that play with cash-conscious studio execs?

I bet the studio execs are really kicking themselves that they didn't book those 5,000 theaters.

"Some studio exec," said one of the waiters.

The studio exec has 150 phone calls to take or make in a day.

I really do think, though, that the cinema-going public is much less ageist than producers and studio execs are, particularly in America.