MOVIES - Oct. 3, 1990

Terms of Extermination: The Orkin Exterminating Co. is bugged over the product placement deal it made with the nation’s No. 1 box-office movie this week: “Pacific Heights.” In a breach of contract suit filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles, Orkin said that it had agreed to pay $20,000 in a deal to portray the company in a favorable light. But “Pacific Heights” represented Orkin as “unwilling or unable to perform competent extermination services,” the suit said. The contract specified that the company would be shown in a “non-disparaging” manner.