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...party, helped fan the smoldering debate by asking the candidates to say how they differed on the issues. Glenn demurred when he went to New York last month for the Governor's public inspection, and Cuomo let his disappointment be known by saying that there should be no "celluloid" candidates...
...night by reminding his audience that he had been "representing the future of this country" in those years. He also took a swipe at New York's Governor Mario Cuomo, who had introduced the issue from another angle by saying that the candidates must demonstrate The than "celluloid images," a reference to the release of the movie The Right charge," featuring Glenn's space triumph. "As far as the celluloid charge," Glenn Reagan] "I wasn't doing Hellcats of the Navy [which starred Ronald Reagan] on a movie lot when I went through 149 missions...
Close to 1,000,000 copies of Erich Segal's hardcover book are in print. Love Story is still number one on the bestseller list-while a 95? edition is the top-selling paperback. Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos. No wonder Love Story has enjoyed the largest opening-week grosses in the history of American cinema. No wonder that on Christmas Day, when it opened across the country, the movie broke the house record in 159 of 165 locations. In three days it earned $2,463,916-more than it cost to make...
Ryan O'Neal does an admirable job of acting, but Ali MacGraw may have performed a miracle for Hollywood. She is an echo of a time when Celluloid City really was the dream factory. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down-the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star, with the Beverly Hills...
Glenn unquestionably fares better on celluloid than in Tom Wolfe's book, published to high acclaim in 1979. As caught in the whambang whirl of Wolfe's prose, the young astronaut seemed more of a Presbyterian prude, a sort of born-again Sky King. While Wolfe poked fun at Glenn the boy policing the language of his school chums, the film focuses only on Glenn the adult. Other digs are neatly skipped over. Wolfe, for example, implies that Glenn sought out NASA officials to discuss replacing Alan Shephard on the first flight, but not a hint of that...