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When filming actually began, the company moved from Lake Tahoe to Santo Domingo, which was to serve as prerevolutionary Cuba. They were rained out for days on end, although Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of the board of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company, comforted Coppola when he complained about the weather. Gulf & Western has holdings in Santo...
Francis Ford Coppola thinks that the situation is more complicated. "The atmosphere at Paramount is very charged. Charles Bluhdorn is like the Godfather, Frank is like Sonny, and Bob is like Michael. They compete for his attention." Many movie insiders agree that Bluhdorn, who insists to the press that he takes no part in Paramount decisions even though his Gulf & Western company owns the studio, plays his corporate sons off against each other. Evans is his particular prot...
...sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...
...Charles Bluhdorn, 46, chairman...
Small investors, who own about one-third of A. & P.'s shares, could well decide to take Bluhdorn's offer of $20 per share, which was $3 more than the price that the stock was bringing at the time. The other major holders of A. & P. are the John A. Hartford Foundation and various members of the founding Hartford family. Trustees of the foundation will meet this week to decide their position. A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who has sold most of his stock, did not think much of the Bluhdorn offer, saying that selling...