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Even zealots occasionally have second thoughts. Carter forgot to store several pages of his memoirs and lost them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of...
Now Bo, as producer and star, and her husband John, as director and cinematographer, have basted together a new Tarzan, which the descendants of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs tried futilely to suppress. The story is familiar and faithful: Jane Parker (Bo) and her great white hunter father (Richard Harris) trek...
Burroughs, Inc., still threatens to sue to stop release of the film. And the Dereks are emitting animal cries of rage.
At issue is the wording of a 1931 contract between Burroughs, who died in 1950, and MGM. For $20,000 the studio bought the rights to the author's 1914 novel, plus permission to remake the film, on the condition that any remake adhere to the spirit of the...
"We spend a lot of time policing all over the world," says Burroughs" grand son Danton, "trying to stop the infring-ers." In 1977 the courts ruled that a sexy French cartoon could not use the name Tarzoon. Last year, before the Dereks' $5.5 million production had begun filming...