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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAUL SIMON: GRACELAND (Warner Bros.). Transcendent spirit under African skies...
...clean, antic style of the Warner Bros. cartoons lives in the pages of William the Backwards Skunk (Crown; $10.95). And why not? The artist-author is Chuck Jones, 74, director of so many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Road Runner animated shorts that even he has lost count. Jones has no trouble recalling the number of books he has produced: this is his first. The star is a highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without...
Wrongheadedness and bizarre tales abounded. Warner Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train...
...release, making it the year's best seller. With only a week or so left in 1986, Paramount has grossed $569 million at the box office, almost 21% of the North American movie market. The studio's closest rivals, Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Productions and Warner Bros., have each won only about half that...
American companies often take legal action to keep imported knock-offs of their products out of the U.S. But Lever Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are subsidiaries of Unilever, a British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped...