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Logic notwithstanding, studios are increasingly grabbing for the brass ring. Warner Brothers last week began production of Exorcist II, starring Richard Burton. Initial budget: $10 million. Next year Warner will release two new megadisaster flicks produced by Irwin (Towering Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the World Ended. Each will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph...
...weekday morning, the only, sound on the quiet residential street is that of power lawnmowers. Says the wife of a Panama Canal (Pancanal) executive: "Don't write that our lawns are manicured. It gives the wrong idea. After all, this is just smalltown U.S.A." On another street, Dolores Irwin, wife of a canal pilot and resident of the zone for a decade, points to her clipped lawn and says, "It's for health reasons. Mosquitoes breed in the long grass...
...income from their share holdings ahead of inflation. Although stock prices themselves dipped sharply during that period, dividends paid by U.S. corporations soared from $22.9 billion in 1970 to $32.8 billion last year; that 43% rise outpaced a 36% climb in the consumer price index. This year Economist Irwin Kellner of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust expects dividends to go up about 8%, well ahead of the anticipated 6% rate of inflation...
...heady time to be young, famous and among the first into the era of postwar fiction. Vidal did not attend college; instead, he joined the class of Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey. An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel. "It was deadly to get caught in the crossfire of their conversation," recalls one who was there. "They were a pair of gilded youths on top of the world...
Finally a warning. ABC has a mini-series of Irwin Shaw's RICH MAN, POOR MAN (Monday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) that makes Beacon Hill look like the later Henry James. Vulgar in characterization, tacky in execution, yet earnestly convinced that it is offering a panorama of postwar American life, it does not even give viewers the consolation of being unintentionally funny. The only hope is to draw a team from the cast and enter it in Almost Anything Goes. It would be a socko-and merciful-finish for both shows...