with a big photo of  Dino De Laurentiis (I) (qv) where the President should be. In the  end, it was a big disaster for the studio. The film was one of the  major flops of the 1980s, barely grossing a million dollars at the  box office, which the studio wound up forking over to the contest  winner, a woman in Bakersfield, California. (Incidentally, the money  was hidden in the bridge of the Statue of Libertys nose).