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...coolest old pro, Paul Newman, reprising one of his best and most famous roles; here is a hot young newcomer, Tom Cruise, staking his claim to authentic stardom in the best part he has yet had. At issue is possession of the movie in which they co-star, The Color of Money...
Indeed, the movie ends with the old guy and the Young Turk, teacher and pupil, father figure and surrogate son (call them what you will) facing off in a national tournament. But what is lovely about The Color of Money is that the filmmakers are not interested in providing a clear winner here, either in the Oscar sweepstakes or in the contest for the audience's affections. They feel that it is enough to explore these two characters and a situation that is rich in melodrama and comic misunderstanding...
Some people, especially young people nurtured on color TV, like the idea. In a poll by Ted Turner's Cable News Network the day the colorized Yankee Doodle Dandy premiered on Turner's SuperStation WTBS last month, 61% of call-in respondents preferred to see old films in color. Good thing: the Turner Broadcasting System has ordered the coloring of 100 black-and-whites from the MGM and Warner Bros libraries. "We're not trying to make bad films great," says Jack Petrik, executive vice president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice...
Pure form! cry the angry filmmakers. The Western branch of the Writers Guild of America calls colorizing an "act of cultural vandalism and a distortion of history." The president's committee of the Directors Guild of America is "unalterably opposed to the cultural butchery." Woody Allen, who has shot four of his last seven films in black and white, sees colorizing as "mutilating a work of art and holding the audience in contempt. I hope people will rise up and put a stop to it." Billy Wilder puckishly sees the debate as a "black-and-white case of logic." Martin...