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...after a successful career as a school administrator, and now manages their income of $500,000 to $1 million a year. He is more likely to be found jogging than watching the tube, and four years ago he ran the Boston Marathon in the creditable time of 3 hr. 29 min. Not all of the one-line zappers come from her side of the table; Bill will breeze into the house and announce with a big smile that he has just been to the library and that all of her books were in. She replies that he looked like...
...playing at movie theaters not very near you: the two versions of Director Leone's $28 million gangster epic. If you wish to see the sprawling, lurid, hallucinatory film cut to Leone's specifications at 3 hr. 47 min., you need only make a pilgrimage to Paris (where the film opened to good business two weeks ago) or, later this month, to a single theater in Chicago, where the Leone version will have its American premiere. If you want to see the Ladd Co.'s cut-brisk, less ambitious and audacious, dramatically more coherent at 2 hr...
...Ladd Co., beset in the past year by the commercial flops of The Right Stuff, Star 80 and Mike's Murder, could not have been happy to find itself with one more auteurist fantasia. When Leone delivered his film at an hour over the contracted 2 hr. 45 min., a team headed by Editor Zach Staenberg went to work, putting the story into chronological order, jettisoning some of the most operatically violent scenes, dropping Deborah (and her child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice...
...know distributors, and Ladd is far from the worst. One distributor for a country in the Middle East said he wanted to buy the film, but only if we took out all the Jewish parts!" Even now, Leone is planning to release a "full" version-all 4 hr. 10 min.-to Italian television in three years. And after that, who knows where it might show up? Perhaps, in some future life, Leone's flawed, fascinating epic will live happily ever after ... in America...
...famed family tree reaches all the way back to a small village in West Africa, and earlier this month, Roots Author Alex Haley, 62, was breaking new cultural ground on another continent. He was in Peking as the executive producer for a 12-hr. TV mini-series called The Last Emperor: The History of China. "I didn't know anything about African culture before I started working on Roots," he explains. "If you do hard research, you can fill in your knowledge of any culture." As part of that research, Haley visited Peking's Forbidden City with...