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...William Styron and Actress Sophia Loren debated such topics as state control of the arts and the unemployment crisis. In between they supped at the Foreign Ministry and lunched with Mitterrand. So dazzling was the cast that even the stars sometimes seemed overwhelmed. Said Film Director Francis Ford Coppola: "The people here are incredible. It's like a college-a very good college." The meeting, Italian Theater Director Giorgio Strehler concluded grandly in his summation, had provoked awareness "of the need to create a new place for research, for creation, for hope...
...LAST THING moviegoers heard from Southeast Asia was Apocalypse Now, in which Robert Duvall glored in early morning napalm raids and Marlon Brando muttered T.S. Eliot as the flames of the Vietnam War engulfed him. In that ill-fated reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola confirmed the capacity of great directors for self-indulgence, as he frantically flailed to capture all the anguish and horror of a decade...
...killing a ne'er-do-well like himself; Steven Judy in Indiana, for strangling a motorist he waylaid and drowning her three children, ages two to five; and Frank Coppola in Virginia, for bludgeoning to death his robbery victim. Last month in Texas, Charlie Brooks Jr., the only black among the six, achieved a milestone when he became the first American ever executed by means of a drug overdose...
...Loudest Crash: Francis Coppola's One from the Heart, which cost $26 million, grossed $ 1.2 million, and is the undisputed winner of this year's Heaven's Gate award...
...narrow strip of land that separated two tributaries of the Amazon. It was a feat of autocracy and artistry, of engineering and enlightened madness-a readymade metaphor for Herzog's kind of film making. The movie would also be his first "big" production, with financial help from Coppola and with Jack Nicholson as the star...