Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood rarely reissued its movies in 1953, and when it did the distributor usually expected at least $100,000 gross--a figure far beyond the capabilities of the 350-seat Brattle. Most foreign distributors preferred to hold onto their films for years waiting for a showing at some huge art house, rather than rent to a little theater like the Brattle...
...Advertising Service, a distributor of college advertising, sent a wire yesterday to all involved college newspapers, notifying them of the addition of the sentence regarding peak-season price hikes...
This all sounds familiar enough to rank automatically as satire, but the distributors or the director hadn't much confidence in their audience. The opening and closing scenes of Zardoz state with no attempt at subtlety that this movie's tongue is unequivocally planted in its cheek. The bulk of the movie is far less obvious. One suspects the distributor was learning the lessons of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. But while that film, after being recalled, was left unmutilated with a change only in the advertising campaign, Zardoz has been more clearly, albeit unnecessarily, labeled...
FRANCE has not one but two oil scandals. The first goes back to 1971, when an independent oil distributor charged that the multinationals were trying to squeeze him out of business by not selling him supplies. Last week the government handed down indictments against 15 oil-company executives, including top figures at Mobil, Shell, Esso and Total. The decision fuels the other scandal, in which the same companies have been accused by Finance Minister Valery Giscard D'Estaing of playing favorites during the Arab oil crunch. They are charged with supplying longtime independent clients while cutting off some newer...
...major distributor of newspapers at Harvard will offer a cash refund to subscribers who missed several deliveries the week of January 7 because of the change in the Harvard vacation schedule...