Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puritanical drinking laws and a prim observance of the Sabbath. But it was also full of men devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with...
...Newhouse, he admits that the Globe-Democrat has lost about $2,000,000 in advertising revenues since the strike began, estimates that it may cost him as much as $1,000,000 more to get the paper back to its prestrike position. Newhouse is now transferring Globe executives temporarily to other jobs within his chain, has managed to cut his out-of-pocket strike costs to some $20,000 a month. At that rate, with a dozen other moneymaking papers in his string, Newhouse can afford to hold out indefinitely. With the guild demanding to know in advance of Newhouse...
Tempest (DeLaurentiis; Paramount), billed as "an overwhelming human storm," is all too obviously just a gigantic blast of hot air. Tempest rages for more than two hours, probably cost more than $3,000,000 to produce-even though most of the big scenes were shot on the cheap in Yugoslavia. More than 3,000 Yugoslav peasants and some 4,500 cavalrymen of the Yugoslav army are employed as camera fodder. To top it off, nine big names (Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne, Oscar Homolka, Agnes Moorehead, Helmut Dantine, Finlay Currie, Vittorio Gassman) have been stacked...
...will not make pictures for the sake of making pictures any more." TV has killed the routine movie for most people (who can watch all the routine movies they want to on TV), forced Hollywood to concentrate on blockbusters-the big-screen, big-star, big-color extravaganzas that often cost upwards of $3,000,000. The blockbusters have no trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from 820 to more than 4,500 in the last ten years. The Ten Commandments, which cost $13.5 million, will have brought in more...
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was a kind of Chinese John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China...