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Anthropologists say that primitive people often eat the gods they worship. The cannibals in question are the new generation of studio heads, many of whom are ex-agents. They are light-years away from the megalomaniac visionaries of yesteryear like Samuel Goldwyn and Irving Thalberg. The current studio bosses'...
It is now more than a quarter of a century since Albert Camus wrote The Stranger, perhaps still the best modern novel of alienation and despair. Though Camus steadfastly refused to allow it, or any of his other books, to be made into a movie, his widow finally sold the...
Ringo Cycle. Leone called the flick A Fistful of Dollars. Basketfuls of denaro would have been more like it. The film outgrossed Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in Italy, will net an estimated $10 million on its $250,000 investment in worldwide distribution. The success raised Actor Eastwood'...
Kissing Lessons. If no more picture contracts are forthcoming, the dynamic duo may return to their home in Rome. There, Romina's reputation as an ingenue is less than snow white. Two years ago, when the De Laurentiis studio gave Romina the role of a child bride in Home...
The Bible. Lured by ballyhoo or simple piety into the vast, glittering void of this enterprise-an experience roughly equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle...