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...Xerox, have set up production subsidiaries. Many of the others are putting up the cash and hiring independent production companies or individuals to make their films. Doubleday is making a production deal for a film version of one of its own books, The Parallax View, by Loren Singer; it has contracted for a screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison), and hired Director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer). Mattel has worked out an arrangement for eight children's films-what else?-with Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, A Dog of Flanders); Radnitz is now at work in Louisiana on Sounder, from...
When Actress Sophia Loren arrived in Manhattan last October, she was robbed of $1,000,000 in jewelry. Last week, returning to make a film, she discovered that the October rascals had just been snared, but that no loot had been recovered. Determinedly sitting through a series of police lineups, Sophia successfully fingered the two culprits, then departed to shoot scenes in an appropriate location: thief-infested 42nd Street...
...unique series of experiments, Dr. Loren Humphrey of Atlanta's Emory University inoculated patients with a vaccine made, at least in part, with tissues taken from tumors similar to their own. He then followed up the inoculations by cross-injecting the patients with white blood cells from fellow patients who had presumably been sensitized to the tumor antigens. Though only long-term testing will tell if Humphrey's approach is effective, the preliminary results appear promising. One patient with bowel cancer has been free of the disease for three years, while three others have evidenced definite remissions...
...Tchepone, 25 miles inside Laos and once described as the "throat" of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Then they pulled back from the deserted town to occupy part of the nearby valley floor and some coyly named fire bases in the surrounding hills ("Sophia," "Liz" and "Lollo" for Actresses Loren, Taylor and Lollobrigida). Hilltop hopping by helicopter, other ARVN forces sought to cut off important enemy supply routes, chiefly Route 914, the last major supply road with a dense cover of foliage. There are main routes farther west, such as Route 23, but they are more exposed to observation...
...keeping with the film's farcical style. The jests are painfully arch (says a prelate to a Vatican telephone operator: "I'd like to speak to St. Paul. Minnesota, that is"). But the jesters-ah, that is another story. It always is when Mastroianni and Loren combine...