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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his Florida campaign, Ford promised that the Republicans' 1974 gubernatorial nominee, Jerry Thomas, would be appointed undersecretary of the treasury. An Orlando defense plant suddenly received a $33.6 million contract, and the federal government suddenly came through with a $15.2 million grant to launch Miami's long awaited transit system...
...Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot who ran the studio, Louis B. Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. went into production with the two baby authors making bundles and Hepburn taking an agent's cut. The film was a huge success...
This system has been enforced by the pass laws; in the newly independent Transkei, it will be enforced by the Transkei passport. Blacks must get special permission to leave the homeland for outside employment, signing up for contract labor with large firms. Blacks who try to organize against their employers or against the state can be sent back to the homeland without a hearing, their pass rescinded. It is this system that keeps wages in South Africa for semi-and unskilled labor so low that American companies investing there receive a profit rate of almost 20 per cent overall...
...unknown, which followed another mythical pattern: the fashion model flown out from Manhattan for a test; a first meeting with an unimpressed producer; the discovery by the director that she had one of those faces the camera loves; the producer's quick reversal of opinion; a hasty contract signing by a girl from Cloquet, Minn., who has now made good...
...from stationery to industrial whitening, buying low, selling high, pocketing the difference. He is called, politely, a "middleman." Somnath learns soon enough that to be a success, certain principles must be modified, others scrapped entirely. By the end of the film, as he tries desperately to procure a textile contract, Somnath has literally become a pimp. The Middleman is understated, sorrowful, full of sly, rueful humor. Ray remains one of the cinema's best poets of the lost chance and a vanishing culture...