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...people at Universal and MCA, its corporate parent. MCA boss Sidney J. Sheinberg, who is concerned by a tone in the press he calls "Hard Copy journalism," claims that the Journal story is "unfair, irresponsible and in a great number of places inaccurate." The film's producer, Charles Gordon, who has spent months undersea and under siege, says the no-toilet story is "insane. We had bathrooms on boats out on the water, two feet away from the trimaran where the scenes were shot. When I read stuff like this, it drives me crazy...
...Gordon had plenty of other stuff to drive him crazy. "In this movie there is supposedly no more dry land," he says. "That means we have to shoot every scene one way-out to sea-so you don't see any land. Then we have to rotate the set to shoot the reverse angle. So now we're shooting, and suddenly a boat sails by, and the take isn't good. Then we had three hurricanes come especially close to our island, and a tsunami warning, where we had to abandon...
...stoked pessimistic press reports. How, folks wondered, could Jaws ever make money? The pain and payoff of Jaws surely prompted Sheinberg, who had supervised it, to meet with Waterworld's producers long before the shooting began and ask, "My God, do you guys know what you're getting into?" Gordon's reply: "We think we have an idea of what we're getting into. And we're sure it'll be worse than what we think...
Harvard women's tennis had to move its match with BC out of Palmer-Dixon Tennis Center to Gordon Track and Tennis Center at 6:30 p.m. yesterday...
Efforts to reach Gordon yesterday for commenton the article were unsuccessful. Gordon is aresident of North House