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Survive! is a quickie rip-off of a quickie ripoff. Exploiting the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which 16 of the 45 Uruguayans aboard survived by eating the flesh of those who had died, a Mexican company brought out an instant tamale version of the saga. Allan Carr, 39, an epicene Hollywood talent manager and promoter, snapped up the film...
...less than $500,000, Carr reshot the original negative through netting and filters so that the snow would not look quite so much like the whitewashed cornflakes of the original. He spliced in stock avalanche footage, inserted some cretinous English dialogue (sample: "There's no food left ... What are we going to do?"), added a bombastic score, and cut the original by about one-third. The film is ignoble, demeaning hokum. Nevertheless, Paramount has spent $1 million to promote...
Survival, if by less dire means, is a subject for which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood...
Glamorous Roles. "In a way," says Carr, "I am like a career doctor. I look at somebody, and I become an analyst of everything from what they wear to what they want out of the business." What Nancy Walker wanted was her own show. "Would two years be good enough?" asked Allan. When he heard that Producer Norman Lear "had a fantasy about doing a series concerning a show-biz lady," he got Walker the starring role-the series is called The Nancy Walker Show and will premiere next month. At the moment, Carr is helping Ann-Margret shed...
...Soule designed the plush Victorian brocade-and-high-ceilinged set in addition to the lighting. Escpecially nice are the proscenium of painted mauve curtains and the warm morning light during the breakfast scenes, which balances the ponderous family portraits and patterned wallpaper. Elaborate period costumes are by Marcia Dixcy Carr...