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...with the environment--increasing urbanization, progress, etc. But this didn't stop certain filmmakers from making Westerns. Ford and Peckinpah continued making good Westerns, but did it by altering their concepts; Ford by turning inward, studying "the American's struggle between self-destruction and life affirmation," to quote John Landau in the latest Rolling Stone; Peckinpah reacted similarly, by examining the end of the Old West...
...A.F.T. was conceived by Movie and Television Producer Ely Landau (The Pawnbroker, Long Day's Journey into Night), who refers to the project as "legitimate film." Landau put together his distribution system in a series of conferences with theater owners in which he appealed "both to their consciences and their half-empty houses on Mondays and Tuesdays." Once a month, one of A.F.T.'s eight first-season productions will be shown in each participating theater, for four performances only. The films will rotate, so that Findlay, Ohio, might see lonesco's Rhinoceros on the same two days...
...future grosses of their productions. Hepburn and Marvin, who normally command six-figure salaries, worked for a token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles and the chance to permanently record their performances in those roles on film. When Landau approached Marvin to play Hickey in Iceman, Marvin's answer was to quote at length Rickey's fourth-act soliloquy...
...past 20 years, notes Landau, movie attendance has plummeted from 80 million a week to 14 million. Many of the absent 66 million are simply staying home to watch TV, but some others, Landau argues, constitute a "special audience who were not getting what they wanted" at the movies. "There is an enormous thinking public that wants something else," says the enthusiastic Katharine Hepburn, "and this is what we hope to capture...
Among the speakers scheduled to lecture this week are Henry B. Rothblatt, former attorney for five Watergate defendants, including James McCord; Edward Swartz, author of Toys That Kill; Paul D. Rheingold and Norman Landau, authors of the Environmental Law Handbook; and, Jerry S. Cohen, co-author of America...