Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were stolen from the production offices; they are now selling for more than $5 each to sci-fi freaks. Some of the spaceship models used for special effects were later stolen from a workshop, and they too are being advertised on the open market. "Star Wars is the costume epic of the future," says Ben Bova, editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines. "It's a galactic Gone With the Wind. It's perfect summer escapist fare...
...dances are jaggedly choreographed, incidental music has the tex ture of a blind fog, and the costumes might have been purchased on the Skid Row of the Casbah. The acting is on the high school epic level - strident, collision-prone and panicky. Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater ought to be declared a disaster area...
Publicly, however, the epic length of 1900 is the major sticking point. Bertolucci took a year to shoot it, and expenditures zoomed from the budgeted $3 million to $8 million. Grimaldi says he protested but did not want to risk offending the Communist sympathies of the film crew and Italian workers in general. Says he: "If I had tried to stop production I would have had a terrible mess -riots, maybe." Bertolucci's first cut, which ran five hours, 30 minutes, was shown at last year's Cannes festival, with extremely mixed reactions. He trimmed another 20 minutes...
...DeMille epic, with a cast of thousands - including celebrated distance special ists, 45-year-old joggers and some for mer heart-attack patients- jostling for a chance to defeat heat, fatigue and a piece of local topography known appropriately as Heartbreak Hill. This year's field is expected to be even bigger...
Psyched for another epic battle with the Hanoverians, the city ruggers drew Yale, the perennial league patsies. It was in the bag, right? No sweat, right...