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DIED. Arthur Mayer, 94, Harvard-educated movie maven and entrepreneur who was a leading publicist in Hollywood's early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City...
However, sophomore guard Kevin Kallaugher disagrees with Harvey's lowbudget assessment. "I jumped to the Classics precisely because the varsity didn't offer me enough money," he said...
...eight years ago. Several of the six remaining major Hollywood companies have become mere subsidiaries of profit-directed conglomerates like Gulf & Western Industries (Paramount) and Transamerica Corp. (United Artists). High-cost extravaganzas have become as rare as singing cowboys and have been replaced by Aubrey's genre: lowbudget, high-profit black films (Cleopatra Jones) and Kung Fu films (Fists of Fury). What future role Jim Aubrey may play in the new Hollywood that he helped shape is a question that will have to wait for his announcement of what he will do for an encore...
These are precisely the stereotyped categories that Barbara Loden, actress and film maker, set out to shatter in Wanda, a lowbudget, highly autobiographical effort released last year. Says Miss Loden, who wrote, directed and starred in the picture: "Wanda was the prototype of the unliberated wom an. She had hardly any overtly redeeming qualities. Usually a girl like that would be fixed up to be more at tractive or be made witty. But I wanted to show a real woman from a certain milieu of our society. All my films will probably be fictionalized sociological studies about women and their...
...Easy Rider establishes a trend toward the lowbudget, personal movie...