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...movie people have been more than anxious to clutch at the hairy hide of the wonderfully exploitable gorilla who is not only house-high but has a soul as well. Ever since production was announced, King Kong had the potential to be what the industry annually requires, a "big bopper." as they say in the trade. A genuine big bopper is something on the order of The Godfather, The Exorcist, The Sting or, to name the film most like Kong, Jaws. It should generate domestic grosses of $50 million to $100 million and, almost as important, a public excitement that...
...Village or even Roseland Dance City any more, listen to Sly (Dance to the Music) or like the Byrds (Hey Mr. Tangerine Man) and not walk out without some sort of ideology or a big fat lump in your throat. Bo Diddley was passe; Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were, respectively, dead; Cream was strictly for Anglophiles; you were growing up--bye, bye Ms. American pie--you needed consciousness, man, Albert Shanker had taken over the nation's schools; now his half-brother Ravi was sitaring his way up the music charts. So when they dispatched...
...infusions of sex. By midseason, he recalls, "half our shows worked, but we had serious problems in the 8-to-9 period." These evaporated as soon as ABC spun off Laverne and Shirley and Bionic Woman from its two most successful "family" shows and introduced another hit, the teeny-bopper variety show Donny and Marie. In February ABC was ready to capitalize on its new-found strength. Rich Man, Poor Man, a sexy twelve-hour serial that could turn into a series, was launched. Then Pierce delivered the coup de grace to his rivals: he made the Winter Olympics...
...modest house overlooking the Hollywood Bowl. Since her debut on the television series Mayberry R.F.D., Jodie brightened the short-lived Paper Moon on TV and has made a total of ten movies, including the yet to be released Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, portraying a teeny-bopper killer; Bugsey Malone, an all-child musical; and Echoes of a Summer, with Richard Harris...
...line is nudity." Then, forgetting what the role of Iris was all about, she adds: "Anyway, no one would want to see a 13-year-old take off her clothes." Some day, she says, she intends to play Othello, no less. Coming from Jodie Foster, that is no teeny-bopper fantasy...