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WITHOUT MARX OR JESUS by Jean-François Revel. 269 pages. Doubleday...
...companies, such as G.E. and Xerox, have set up production subsidiaries. Many of the others are putting up the cash and hiring independent production companies or individuals to make their films. Doubleday is making a production deal for a film version of one of its own books, The Parallax View, by Loren Singer; it has contracted for a screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison), and hired Director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer). Mattel has worked out an arrangement for eight children's films-what else?-with Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, A Dog of Flanders); Radnitz is now at work...
...entrance of big firms like G.E. and Bristol-Myers into the moviemaking field is not likely to mean any loss to art, for art has seldom had any direct relationship with the box office. Doubleday's Robert Banker, however, insists: "Our rule is going to be that we will produce things that will entertain and be provocative." Says G.E.'s Moore: "We just would not be interested in producing R and X pictures. But, more important, G and GP are where the long-range values in the negatives exist. They are products with longevity...
IBSEN by Michael Meyer. 865 pages. Doubleday...
...ADOLESCENT by Fyodor Dosfoevsky. A new translation by Andrew R. MacAndrew. 585 pages. Doubleday...