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...story so far: daredevil film maker (Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films) and presumptive bankrupt Francis Ford Coppola had just fired himself out of a cannon wearing a fine black beard and a jaunty smile but perhaps (there was a lot of public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble...
...Coppola previews his new film and puts his studio on the line...
Thus matters stood last week: Coppola hurtling through space with the Zoetrope mortgage in his teeth as 6,000 New Yorkers-1,000 freebies and 5,000 paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before...
...Coppola's audacity- as brilliant film maker and profligate showman-that raises both hopes and hackles in the industry. Last week Paramount executives were grunting "No comments" through clenched teeth-perhaps because, as Zoetrope President Robert Spiotta suggests, "they're more disturbed by not being told than by Francis' marketing strategy." One Paramount insider did allow that "we might well have backed the idea-if Francis had come to us with it." But surprise is all in a flanking maneuver. Besides, as one screen writer friend of Coppola's says: "Francis is a genius at manipulating...
System or chaos, Coppola is never dull. Two years ago, he had New York cinephiles atwitter with his presentation of the seven-hour Our Hitler. Last January he put a refurbished version of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon into the Music Hall, and played host to not just a celebrity party but an exhilarating film experience. After the Napoleon coup, movie wags were wondering which charismatic dictator Coppola would bring to New York in early 1982. Now they know. Frederic Forrest may be romancing Nastassia Kinski onscreen, but center stage will again be occupied...