Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books and movies dribbling out now about that fine old decade are so heavy, they lack the old ring of verismo. But this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, he has to wing it. So Forman's munchkins hire six rock...
...Milos Forman. In 1968 he was still making movies in Prague; after seeing Hair in New York, he wanted to bring the musical to his home town. The 1968 Soviet invasion cooled that dream, and it did not thaw until Forman met Co-Producer Persky at a party (for Cuckoo's Nest) in Manhattan three years ago. "These people fought the good fight, and they shouldn't be ashamed of it," Forman says of his guests for the day. "We think the time to make the movie Hair...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Jack Haley Jr., 44, movie producer (That's Entertainment) and television executive; from Liza Minnelli, 32, explosive Broadway entertainer (The Act) and film actress (Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo); after 3½ years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...much that his rolling eyes begin to resemble the oranges and lemons of a one-armed bandit. His manic mechanical nature nearly ruins the number "Swiss Miss," which is cleverly choreographed (by Douglas Fitch and Nancy Tulowiecki) for Dick and Susie to move like the puppets on a Swiss cuckoo clock. Because Barton is nearly always cuckoo, the dance doesn't come off as much of a contrast--a real shame, because Barton is relaxed and debonair in later routines...
...particularly rocky Hollywood marriage, which in fact was just what it had been. The principals were the top executives at Transamerica, the San Francisco-based insurance-manufacturing-entertainment conglomerate, and the management of its United Artists subsidiary. With Oscar-winning smashes like Rocky and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, United Artists is Hollywood's most successful film producer. But after closing the books on their best year ever, U.A.'s entire brain trust, including Chairman Arthur Krim and President Eric Pleskow, up and quit...