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Heng Samrin, Francis Coppola, Johnny Rotten and John Clive...
...Viking missions to Mars as one of the expedition's moving minds, his impudence, optimism, and imagination, won him national attention. Johnny Carson has toasted him. The New Yorker has profiled him, countless universities have ensnared him as their graduation speaker. He made movies with Francis Ford Coppola, chaired the National Book Awards, and rubbed elbows with celebrities of every ilk. He is, if you will, the shooting star of the astronomical profession...
...Coppola's Apocalypse...
Maybe Director Francis Coppola should not have bragged to everyone that he was making the definitive film of the Viet Nam War with Apocalypse Now [Aug. 27]. Maybe he was his own worst p.r. man. But what he did do was create one helluva tremendous cinema experience that stunned me and many others into silence. The film, like the war, is overpowering, brutal, unrelenting, spectacular. Who cares if Coppola had second thoughts about the ending? Did the war itself end as we Americans planned...
Heaven's Gate will cost as much as Francis Coppola's $30 million Apocalypse Now, which was also released by United Artists. But Coppola put up more than half the money for Apocalypse, while Heaven's Gate is being almost entirely financed by U.A. The dialogue between director and studio, according to one production insider, was "switchblades and garbage-can covers," but Field claims to be unperturbed. Says he: "I think Michael is making a masterpiece. We are trying to do everything in the world to keep that picture going...