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Leonard Nimoy plans to shoot part of a Walt Disney film, "The Good Mother," in Cambridge beginning April 11. Based on the novel of the same title by city resident Sue Miller, the movie will star Diane Keaton and Jason Robards. William Blum, a spokesman for Nimoy, said it is due out next Thanksgiving...
...film crew will work in the Cambridge area for a week, taking "establishment shots" of the city's streets and skyline to show that the movie is set in Cambridge. However, Nimoy will produce the the bulk of the film in Toronto, said Hilary Clark, publicity director for Walt Disney Studios. She attributed the location change to "sheer economics...
Touchstone Films a department of Disney Studios that deals with more adult themes than the purely family oriented stories of Walt Disney Pictures, will produce the film, she said...
...kind of a sexy technology," says William Mechanic, president of Worldwide Video Operations at the Disney studio. "Laser vision is different stuff," says Robert Stein, whose Los Angeles-based Voyager Company turns out definitive disc versions of classics like Citizen Kane and contemporary gems like Blade Runner. "We're talking about radical technology." Technology, it should be added, that has been around for almost a decade. Laser discs hit the market in the late '70s and promptly took a commercial trouncing from the VCR. Laser players could not record, and, in the words of Warner Home Video's president Warren...
...still shocks me, the warmth and affection," Hamill says twelve years after her triumph at Innsbruck. "It never goes away." She continues to make star turns on television. Meanwhile, Lake Placid Silver Medalist Linda Fratianne, Thomas' childhood favorite, has done seven years of ten-month tours for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom on Ice. Since 1980, skating's three disciplines (school figures, short program, long program) have been reformulated. By today's measurements, Fratianne would have won the gold medal. "But sometimes I think my sanity is better off with the silver," she says. "My father used to send...