Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention, now, and no giggling in the back rows, please. Raquel Welch, 38, is making a three-hour TV epic called The Legend of Walks Far Woman near Billings, Mont. Raquel plays Ms. Woman, a squaw of Sioux and Blackfoot pedigree whose tale is traced from the 1870s to World War II. She is supposed to race, ride and swim in the movie, but since Raquel can't do these things very well, half a dozen doubles will fill in for her. Here she is acting, with no double in sight...
...made in a long time," explains U.A. Senior Vice President David Field. The studio's faith in Cimino was undiminished when the director's script rewrites necessitated a bigger budget of $11.6 million. The film had become more sweeping than a conventional western. It opens in the 1870s with the Harvard graduation of the hero, James Averill, who, like many of his generation, went West to help settle the land. Ten years later, as a federal lawman in Johnson County, he sides against his own class in the growing war between landed gentry and immigrant farmers. His story...
...about the state of the American Right this year. It's not that their likely victories will actually contribute to the much-fabled Shift to the Right. They will not preside over the funeral of the "New South" (a fashionable phrase since at least the 1870s). There will be no total surrender to the beast that just gobbled Michael Dukakis...
Jonas, whose specialty is American diplomatic history, will spend the year working on a study of U.S.-German relations from the German unification in the 1870s to the end of the Allied occupation...
...Woman that he is calling his first U.S. production Another Man, Another Woman. It is not, however, a sequel to his soft-focus romance between a French racing driver and a young widow. This time the story takes place in the American West in the 1870s. A French immigrant wife (Genevieve Bujold) arrives by stagecoach in dusty Arizona. After cleaning up in a steaming pay tub (a cold bath costs 50 and a hot bath 100), she meets and becomes involved with a young veterinarian (James Caan). LeLouch says he nearly called it A Man, A Woman...