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...Last Tango look like tiddlywinks. The new picture is a year late, $5 million over budget, and-with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...
Bertolucci's best hope seems to be his unfinished four-hour, 25-minute compromise cut-if it exists. Grimaldi contends that the only usable negative of it has been destroyed; Bertolucci disagrees. A small U.S. distributor with friendly ties to Bertolucci, Caribou Films, is now pressing Grimaldi to bring forth the compromise cut so it can negotiate for the rights. If that does not work, says Bertolucci, "I may have to break into the studio where Grimaldi has locked it up, steal it and circulate it underground...
Kopple considered trying to distribute the film herself, decided against it, and rammed through a tough deal with Cinema 5, a major independent film distributor. Harlan County has been shown in Appalachia for free, people with union cards got a dollar off the admission price, and Kopple gets ten benefits a year, of which "I've already used 12." The film opens in 40 theaters across the country this week. It's already been used in one benefit Kopple knew nothing about, and probably would have opposed--Arnold Miller raised $10,000 for his re-election campaign to the UMWA...
...five or more people participate. Though Flynt's magazine is edited 105 miles away, in Columbus, and printed 374 miles away, in Milwaukee, Leis succeeded in selling the jury the tortured proposition that Flynt had engaged in organized crime in Cincinnati by virtue of dealing with a magazine distributor there...
...about having his conviction reversed on appeal, he may be spending time in still other courtrooms. He faces obscenity charges in Cleveland; indictments for sodomy, bribery and disseminating material harmful to juveniles in Cincinnati; and a $10 million breach-of-contract suit from Hustler's former national newsstand distributor. Meanwhile, representatives of the Indianapolis vice squad were at the Cincinnati trial gathering inspiration for their own possible obscenity case against Flynt...