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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BLAKE EDWARDS, the ads tell us, is "the man who painted the panther pink," and put Ravel's Bolero on Billboard's Top Forty. Yet before reviving The Pink Panther, Edwards sired a series of flops that turned Hollywood against him. No longer able to make films on the West Coast, Edwards produced the Panther series in Europe. From the height of his knowledge about Tinsel Town, Edwards, with all credibility now restored, takes a pot shot at Hollywood--the angry gesture, it would seem, of a much maliened...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Sour Grapes | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...cast finale, combining rock and religious themes, summed up with a jubilant Hallelujah Love! - By Patricia Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lenin's Rockers | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Little is known about Hu's family, even in China. He is believed to be married and to have three grownup children, all of whom are said to live the same kind of spartan life that he has led for years. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Peking and Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Less Theory, More Production | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

S.O.B. Directed and Written by Blake Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Biting the Hand of Hollywood | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Blake Edwards is a lucky s.o.b. He is finally rich enough to support his career-long addiction to anger. The riches come from his Pink Panther films and "10. "The anger reached nearly self-destructive heights in the early '70s when, after making a string of hits (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Biting the Hand of Hollywood | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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