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...denied."Bunk," says the director, who proposed an "ideal" length of six hours but cut the film down to 4 hours 38 minutes. He was prepared to cut the last eight minutes when, after months of acrimony, he and the producers quarreled irrevocably. Puttnam and his partner, Sandy Lieberson, claim that Ophuls quit. Ophuls says...
...controversy that Ophuls has managed to stir up has rattled the producers. Lieberson told the London Times two weeks ago, "We never tried to impose our philosophical ideas on the movie." In fact, the film, which is now approximately 3½ hours long, severely alters Ophuls' intention. Many of his interview questions have been cut, along with footage of his family (his wife was a member of Hitler Youth) and of Germany during the Weimar Republic and later in the painful process of denazification. Also excised was a scene of middle-aged Germans, nude in a mixed sauna, discussing...
...1950s, he kept up a steady reissue of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Bessie Smith, and brought in Mitch Miller to manage the company's middle-of-the-road pop line. In the early 1960s, as Lieberson is fond of pointing out, he helped usher in the rock era by signing Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and the Byrds...
...trim, aristocratic-looking man, Lieberson still walks each morning from his town house on Manhattan's East Side to his office in CBS'S dark gray stone skyscraper (known to employees as the Black Rock); he still finds time for tennis and doodling on an unfinished violin concerto, still entertains such friends as the Leonard Bernsteins, Richard Rodgerses and Dick Cavetts. He frequently gets away with his wife of 27 years, Ballerina Vera Zorina, for long weekends at their second home in Santa...
...already created what Classical Records Co-Director Thomas Shepard calls "a different feeling on top." Lieberson feels that if Columbia is going to experiment and take chances, as it has frequently in the rock area ("And not all rock groups make money, I assure you"), it should be willing to do the same thing in the classics. "The moment we stop being able to do that is the moment that I stop wanting to be a part of this business...