Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complaints that Carter had few new faces in his Cabinet were dying down, but he was still being criticized for naming Griffin Bell as his Attorney General. Carter claimed that the Atlanta lawyer and former federal judge was being unfairly attacked for belonging to restricted clubs (see box...
...Granholm, a top aide to National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Granholm begins by cornering 15,000 hotel rooms. Before the game is over, he and the rest of the league staff will have seen to everything from towels and hot dogs to brackets for televisions in the press box to X-ray machines for diagnosing injuries, to coat hangers for clotheshorse athletes to an elaborate security system designed to ensure that nothing can possibly go wrong on Super Sunday...
...with the idea for the film by Producer Franco Rossellini. Vidal agreed to write a screenplay, and he introduced Rossellini to Guccione, who, with a logic Descartes would have envied, realized that where there are mad Roman Emperors there must also be orgies-along with big grosses at the box office and an endless supply of nude picture spreads for Penthouse...
...films are breaking box-office records in Utah and Idaho. They deal basically with pioneer-children stories, action adventures with strong moral kickers-all shamelessly calculated to make kids and adults laugh, cry and walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart...
...doing distribution and television advertising himself. D-D creates its own commercials for its films, and pummels local markets with five-to seven-day TV blitzes before a film opens. Another innovation is the "host" system. Under it, D-D representatives collect the company's share of box-office receipts nightly at each theater, speeding cash flow. Says Dayton: "The faster you can get your money out, the sooner you can go into production on your next film...