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...York, where this week's cover story was written by Judy Fayard with the help of Reporter-Researcher Patricia Gordon and edited by Martha Duffy, Correspondent Mary Cronin spent several hours with Gatsby Scriptwriter Francis Ford Coppola. In the meantime, Los Angeles Correspondent Leo Janos talked to some of the Gatsby constellation: Robert Redford, Bruce Dern and Karen Black. Exploring their hopes and fears about the movie, he learned that none of them had yet seen the final version of their film...
First choice for an adapter was Truman Capote, but Paramount found his treatment "unacceptable." Godfather Director and Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter (for Patton) Francis Ford Coppola was brought in, and he turned in the script in three weeks...
...beautiful, an example of a lavish budget used intelligently. Acknowledging the movie's opulence, one guest said that it is "very slow in getting started, ran awfully long, and the characters were about impossible to get into at all." Part of the problem apparently is the pace. Both Coppola's script and Clayton's direction treat Fitzgerald reverentially, giving each scene almost equal emphasis. Another problem, surprising in a Coppola script, is wooden dialogue. Several viewers complain that the actors cannot speak long stretches of straight Fitzgerald prose convincingly. Unfortunately, the chief victims seem to be Redford...
Francis Ford Coppola thinks that the situation is more complicated. "The atmosphere at Paramount is very charged. Charles Bluhdorn is like the Godfather, Frank is like Sonny, and Bob is like Michael. They compete for his attention." Many movie insiders agree that Bluhdorn, who insists to the press that he takes no part in Paramount decisions even though his Gulf & Western company owns the studio, plays his corporate sons off against each other. Evans is his particular prot...
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