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Remember Cleopatra-that wildly ballyhooed Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza of 1963? Executives of 20th Century-Fox wish they could forget; the movie cost $41 million to make, but has taken in considerably less than that at the box office. Yet much of the movie industry is acting as if it has in fact forgotten the big-budget flops that brought several major studios to the brink of financial ruin in the 1960s. Once again, studio heads-this time backed by the resources of conglomerates that have bought up most of the studios-are pouring huge sums into feature films...
...MetroNews, MetroNews. Their loyalty is understandable; most of what they will see and hear could have come straight from Mary. Instead of repeating the substantive news stories other stations serve up at 11 p.m., Los Angeles' Metromedia affiliate courts its carryover MH2 audience with an 11:30 extravaganza it forthrightly calls "news for people who don't like news...
More than 15,000 Boy Scouts will converge on Harvard's athletic fields this weekend to participate in "Scouting Spirit '76," a mammoth extravaganza including camping, bicentennial games, an air show, track and field events, swimming, and a pageant in Harvard Stadium...
PSYCHO-HISTORY, a field that has gained a reputation for raking great men over the coals, has hardly been kind to T.E. Lawrence. From several "psycho-biographies" and a Hollywood extravaganza, Lawrence emerges as the hidden sexual Frankenstein's monster of the modern age--a libidinal beast repressed by Victorian morality, then let loose and finally destroyed by post-World War I decadence. These accounts have reveled in the sordid side of the Lawrence myth, and there are certainly enough seedy details to make any Freudian's mouth water...
...most glittering is the recreational group. It supervises the hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Reno and the Bahamas. Summa's communications group supervises KLAS-TV and the Hughes Television Network Inc., which connects stations across the country for special programs. (Coming up: a two-hour Bicentennial extravaganza...