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...forge a distinctive adult American cinema. Few thought in terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France in the 60s; Robert Altman adopted that model for his pioneering 70s works.) Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst...
...pictures made their money slowly, playing first runs, then gradually reaching the smaller towns and theaters; the theatrical life of one of these crowd-pleasers might be a full year. There were genre movies, of course, but not many science-fiction films. Those were kids? stuff; movies of the 70s were for adults. Besides, special effects weren?t sophisticated enough to open viewers? eyes to the fantasy worlds its makers might be dreaming. Even Jaws, which broke a few rules by opening in a thousand or so theaters, and by reviving the monster-from-the-deep subgenre of Atomic...
TIME: A number of news stories lately suggest that the feminist revolution that shaped the lives of men and women in the '60s and '70s, even the '80s, has sort of run its course. Do you think that has happened...
...from one man helping him to a factory of 30 workers in 1967. He was the first to print patterns on suede and leather, a technique that turned out to be lucrative when both Hermès and Pierre Cardin in Paris snapped up Cavalli's materials. By the early '70s, he had the confidence to design his own ready-to-wear collection...
...That 70s Show's] Mila Kunis engaged...