Word: bonita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is one of the oddest success stories of 1978. Though Jack and Bonita Wrather had wanted to make a new Lassie movie for some time, they were daunted by the fact that in recent years most so-called family pictures have done rather poorly at the box office. Moreover, since Lassie Come Home was released in 1943, there have been eight sequels, not to mention the TV series that ended only five years ago. Most people in Hollywood thought the public had seen enough of that particular collie...
...Jack and Bonita felt different, however, and the Wrather Corp. (oil, radio, TV and hotels) conducted a poll of audience attitudes. One of its conclusions: the public was in the mood for upbeat entertainment. And so the tenth?but unquestionably not last?Lassie was unleashed...
...Bonita wanted the plot to follow the pattern of the original, and anyone who saw that one might be excused for saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen them all." Crusty but kind James Stewart is raising his two orphaned grandchildren in postcard-pretty Northern California. "Oh, golly, gee, I love that home-town feeling," sings Gramps. "People always say hello." Lassie is their pet, and they all spend a lot of time hugging her. Suddenly a baldheaded, mean-looking rich man develops a yen for the dog; she reminds him of his own dead collie, the only...
They are, however, a romantic people. During the evening I learned the story behind the song "Maria Bonita," which is 30 years old and more popular than ever in this latest version sung by Julio Iglesias. The songwriter, Augustin Lara, "one of the ugliest men in Mexico," fell in love with Maria, the most beautiful woman. "They married but she had other loves. You can't love as much if you have others...
Overseeing the story was Nation Editor Marshall Loeb, assisted by Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison and Bonita Siverd...