Word: copycatting
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...selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions is about to break out: Exorcist II, Jaws 2 and Sting II are either scheduled...
...reverberations; it puns off not the sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might be the magic mountain and the movie-makers the mouse, for it's loyal to the letter of Fitzgerald's descriptions as if making up for having missed his meanings. And it plods over those like a half-blind elephant...
...merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways add little to the economy. A case in point: 48 manufacturers of electric blankets, pads and bed warmers produce 242 different models, and none of them makes much money. When the merger mood gets into full swing, those firms will be ripe...
Meanwhile, ABC signed Nightclub Comic Joey Bishop as host of a copycat show opposite Tonight, but Bishop is being clobbered in the ratings by nearly 3 to 1. The even newer syndicated Las Vegas Show with Bill Dana scarcely excites a quaver on the Nielsen meters. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. has two talk-variety entries-Mike Douglas in 142 cities, Merv Griffin in 90. But Carson is considered so formidable that Griffin opposes him head-on in only one market, New York City, while Douglas is programmed nowhere after...
...Detroit would be surprised if G.M. eventually should drop the Corvair altogether. General Motors next September will bring out a stubby-tailed, moderately priced (about $2,500) sports car, tentatively named Panther, to compete with Mustang. Latest joke at Ford: "Instead of Panther, maybe G.M. ought to call it Copycat...