Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, Reynolds did a favor for his friend Hal Needham, a stuntman who had the opportunity to direct if he could get Reynolds to star in the picture. The result was a little number called Smokey and the Bandit, nothing much more elaborate than a 90-minute car chase, with Jackie Gleason playing a sheriff in hot, exasperated pursuit of Reynolds' good-ole-boy trucker. The film cost about $4 million. The last time anyone looked, it had grossed about $100 million, second only to the phenomenal Star Wars for 1977. Reynolds' latest picture, Semi-Tough, has been doing business...
...friends think the gatefold may have cost him an Academy Award nomination. Overall, however, his strategy worked. He has not had to play a heavy in years, and his success as a highly bankable "light" gives him more and more chances to call his own shots, even to direct himself, in Gator (1976) and the upcoming...
Gershman said he is confident that the appeal will have a direct benefit on the release of Koirala...
...Anwar Sadat: "We used to reject you, true. We refused to meet you anywhere, true. We referred to you as the 'socalled Israel,' true. At international conferences our representatives refused to exchange greetings with you, true. At the 1973 Geneva Peace Conference our delegates did not exchange a single direct word with you, true. Yet today we agree to live with you in permanent peace and justice. Israel has become an accomplished fact recognized by the whole world and the superpowers. We welcome you to live among us in peace...
...diplomatic and defense affairs. Nonetheless, the new homeland has a considerable economic potential: at present it accounts for two-thirds of the total platinum production in the Western world. It is also rich in asbestos, granite, vanadium, chromium and manganese. By 1979 the homeland should be receiving direct mining revenues of about $30 million a year. But only 10% of BophuthaTswana's total land area is arable, and much of that is covered with scrub brush...