Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft of her forthcoming "novel" (see box next page), Ray tells a similar story. In her account, she sicced Anderson onto a Congressman because she was mad at him for exploiting her. Remorseful, she confessed to the Congressman. Instead of being enraged, he saw this as a way of trapping Anderson. He set Liz up with the recorder, got her to entice the newsman into making compromising statements, then played them back to Anderson. At least in the draft of the book, Anderson called off his investigators. The real Anderson story played out differently: he wrote several items criticizing Gray...
...Berlinguer took the podium to deliver an independence speech that left his stony-faced Russian hosts sitting on their hands. He demanded "a road to socialism that corresponds to the peculiar characteristics of the historical, civil and political development of our country." In public speeches and private interviews (see box), Berlinguer has promised that the Communists, if allowed to share power, would continue the Italian role in NATO and the Common Market. On the key question for democratic Europeans, whether the Communists, if defeated, would give up power democratically, Berlinguer insists that they would. He insists also that a Communist...
...less enchanting to the ambassador's countrymen. Invited on Iran Air's inaugural nonstop flight from New York to Tehran, Taylor came playing the role of temperamental tourist. On arrival she sent Tehran police in search of a missing hand-carried package. Rumored to be a jewelry box, it turned out to be some Glenfiddich pure malt scotch. Then came a minor row at her hotel when she found her accommodations were not the royal suite she expected, and more trouble when she passed up several social functions. By the time she had taken some photos...
Grizzly is too cheapjack to be a considerable success, but it also will not need much of a return at the box office to show a modest profit. It is notable mainly as the first in what promises to be an infestation of Jaws sequels, rip-offs and derivations. Universal is presently at work on the official reprise, Jaws II. Other studios will soon bring forth films about marauding crocodiles, deadly swarms of bees, a car - apparently driverless- that terrorizes a small town, and a plague of earthworms, this last called Squirm. Most of these items hold little promise...
...million in worldwide rentals. Jaws (production cost: $9 million) probably will bring Universal and its corporate parent. MCA Inc., $180 million by the time it completes its first runs worldwide. Warner Brothers' All the President's Men (production cost: $7 million) has started off like the box office smash of all time; in its first six weeks it has earned $14 million in rentals in the U.S. and Canada, breaking The Godfather's record for initial success...