Word: friedland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppliants who look to Baba Muktananda for such experiences are generally older than those who follow some other gurus, and they include a high proportion of professionals: lawyers, actors, educators and a surprising number of psychologists. Attorney Ron Friedland, 35, is recuperating from a heart attack. During his convalescence, he says, he learned that "if you have taken all there is to take out of a career, and there is nothing more to aspire to, then you know you only have one-third of the pie-even if it's the fattest, richest third." Jerry Bender, 38, was making...
...months to come, this scene will be repeated every day at precisely 8:37 a.m. That is when the Hanover-Kassel local pulls into Friedland (pop. 1,200), site of West Germany's East European refugee camp. Since the exodus began last week, more than 250 Germans have arrived from Poland-the vanguard of many more who are expected to make the trek by mid-1972. The refugees are the first tangible result of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik...
Bergman Bull. Dewey and Friedland are interested in making good movies. But they also talk about "markets" and "products" just as coolly as any grizzled veteran of the Hollywood studios. "The horror market is wide open," Chris Dewey says. "What we'd really like to do is the Easy Rider of horror movies." Cannon even adopts the big-studio system of cutting movies, and even reshooting and adding scenes if the film maker's version doesn't please them...
Dewey and Friedland, like their Hollywood forefathers, have also apparently learned that imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also one of the surest signs of success. Jump, which is about stock-car racers in Appalachia, is described as "like The Hustler, except that the Paul Newman character doesn't have a pool cue-he drives a car." The budget on that one will be Cannon's limit, $300,000. With that kind of money, they reason, even if the picture bombs in the big Northern cities, they can still turn a handy...