GORDON STULBERG: I got to know foreign distribution operations quite well, and it was quite clear that if you had Steve McQueen, for example, or Clint Eastwood or Barbra Streisand, that the guarantees that were payable in Australia and Japan and South Africa and Italy and Germany—just the guarantees that you’d get whether the picture performed or not—would be three or four times the salary you paid the actor for the whole picture.
