Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INCHON...
More bad news for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Not only has the religious cult leader lost his case to the IRS but he must now face the fact that Inchon, his first, $46 million venture as a movie financier, is unlikely to contribute so much as a dollar to defraying his legal fees...
Intended to celebrate the famous victory of General Douglas MacArthur at the title harbor during the Korean War, when he sneaked an army in behind his enemy, cutting them off from home and supplies, Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Behind the sunglasses and corncob, underneath the plastered-down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade...
...brown shoulders at a dinner party Harold Robbins is throwing for Pia Zadora, the star of a new movie made from his novel Lonely Lady-and one of the year's show-off starlets for photographers. The experiences of one party provide conversational fodder for the next. "Loved Inchon," said one professional gadfly the day after the $45 million movie financed by Sun Myung Moon premiered to near unanimous pans. "Inchon the movie?" asked an incredulous colleague. "No," the gadfly replied. "Inchon the dinner...
DIED. James Doyle, 83, vice admiral who in 1950, while serving in the Korean War under General Douglas MacArthur, brilliantly commanded the amphibious landing of the First Marine Division at Inchon, leading to the liberation of Seoul from Communist troops, and later oversaw the two-week evacuation of 200,000 soldiers and civilians from Hungnam under heavy enemy fire; in Oakland, Calif...