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...Halloween Movie Marathon, Friday and Saturday, midnight til dawn, at Off the Wall...
Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin-and Jonathan Winters' head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew...
...other complications arise. Bargaining with film distributors to get a price which will leave room for profit requires a good deal of knowledge and a little bit of trickery. Hitchcock films generally cost about $50, while $100 will rent an old favorite. But prices vary with the season, and Halloween has a way of making Frankenstein much more expensive. A recent movie costs still more: companies demand a percentage of the profits, sometimes as much as 80 or 95 per cent on films as popular as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When placed...
Under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Schlesinger successively headed the Atomic Energy Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department. To the public, he is best known as the tough-minded Defense Secretary whom President Ford purged in his 1975 Halloween "massacre." It was a lucky firing, in a way, because it made Schlesinger, a nominal Republican, available to advise Carter. The Georgian met Schlesinger for the first time during the campaign; preparing for his second televised debate with Ford, Carter asked Schlesinger, who had just returned from a trip to China, to brief him. The President...
...that they are alone is something of a misstatement, however. These comic Prosperos can conjure up whole casts with a mere wink of the eye or shrug of the shoulder. His face is a rubbery Halloween mask that can be anyone from Captain Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter...