Word: inflight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While pay increases are crucial to a settlement, by far the stickiest point in the strike is the question of "supplemen tary markets"- inflight movies, pay and cable TV, and cassettes. Presently allot ted no share at all, the Guild is demanding 1.2% of the gross revenues from such supplementary markets. The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the networks are offering only .6%. With the costs of developing the markets estimated in the millions of dollars, the studios argue that the invesment would hardly be worth it if they must share any larger portion...
...flights are changing from expensive throwaways to solid publishing ventures, with a relatively new book, American Airlines' The American Way, jetting into the lead. The American Way is expected to earn $25,000 to $50,000 this year-the first significant profit ever turned by an inflight-after losing as much or more for four years running...
...thinks to ask of the promised fourth film, because Jodorowsky is already off into an explanation of his flight from the West Coast, during which he watched the inflight movie while listening to Sly and the Family Stone on his headphones. "I prefer to film silent voices like the American spaghetti Westerns. In my pictures, I change all the voices. For me an old woman is 70 years old, has experience of life in voice. I put it with face of a young girl. She becomes a great actress. Nobody's voice is their...