Word: extravaganzas
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...good choice for chopping. As Young Turks rising to the status of Hollywood pashas, they upset many of the old rules-including the precept that a finished film really is finished. Coppola sutured his two Godfather films, along with an hour of outtakes, into a four-night NBC extravaganza, and last year he previewed several versions of Apocalypse Now before deciding which one he wanted-for now. Lucas rereleased American Graffiti with additional footage. Still, Coppola and Lucas are hardly the only directors to have joined the emerging slice-and-splice school: Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from...
...going to be that kind of convention, a four-day affair that could kill all chances for a show of party unity; a 96-hour extravaganza of political divisiveness that may rupture the party permanently; 5760 minutes of protests by communists and socialists and angry constituents that could become unwieldy and even violent...
...importance of television can hardly be overstated. It was in 1972 in Miami Beach that Richard Nixon took the modern convention to its full contemporary role-a four-day-long TV show. His aides actually wrote a script for the convention. Last week's extravaganza went so far as to include the appearances of key Republicans on morning and evening television news shows as part of the daily convention schedule. The timing, the lighting, the selection of entertainers, the sequence of speakers, the music, the makeup on the politicians' faces, everything was for television...
Ronald Reagan is an old hand at theatricals, but nothing in his long career can compare with the four-day extravaganza scheduled for Detroit's Joe Louis Arena this week. After many years of tryouts, he is the Republican Party's superstar. His folksy conservatism, with its tinge of Western populism, not only swept the Republican primaries but appears to be attracting other parts of the electorate as well. Scenting that victory might indeed be theirs, the Republicans are closing ranks behind their new standardbearer. Though some are still wary of his politics, others envision Reagan's launching...
Olympics promotions usually have been a good investment. Gillette was one of the first companies to use the gimmick, peddling the official razor of the 1956 Melbourne Games. Sales nearly tripled during the sports extravaganza. Says John Musgrave, marketing director of the Lake Placid Winter Games: "The Olympics are a super advertising...