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There has been a movement recently for studios to give freer rein to some promising young directors. This has been based for the most part on the enormous success of George Luca's low-budget American Graffiti. Now other young directors--Marty Scorsese, Terry Matlick, Steven Spielberg,--have made successful first films. But, Altman says, there are not enough. And the studios are still trying to keep their hands on the director's shoulder. "There should be room for more than just these," he says. "And Spielberg, for instance, is still under contract to Universal for about five more years...
...collection was recently fortified by a bequest from one of the greatest collectors of Italian drawings, Janos Scholz. What the library now offers is of almost unparalleled rarity, beginning with a black chalk study of devils-spiky, nervous and of an almost hallucinatory vigor-by the 15th century Artist Luca Signorelli, proceeding through works by Pontormo, Filippino Lippi, Dürer, Fragonard, Bruegel and Blake...
...jobs for ghetto youngsters, the majority of the 320 mayors in attendance opposed the President's current plan. The conference then issued carefully worded counterproposals and passed a flurry of resolutions condemning further federal cutbacks. "Nixon has simply declared that the urban crisis is over," says John De Luca, an aide to San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. "We are telling him it still exists...
...Luca encourages the old lady's reveries and replenishes her fantasies with letters apparently from her son Janos, who is said to be making a film in America. In fact, he is a political prisoner, serving a ten-year term for some unspecified crime against the state. Luca keeps this from the old lady, and instead constructs letters with elaborate lies about his success and about the richness of America. The old lady reads the letters with a large magnifying glass, thrilling to each detail like a child hearing a fairy tale, relishing the deception they represent even...
...devotion. Soon, but quietly, the old lady dies. Not long afterward, her son (Ivan Darvas) is released from prison, with as little warning and reason as he was first put there. He savors, almost timidly, the sudden sensations of freedom, then, a little anxiously, returns home to his wife. Luca tells him of his mother's passing, and he mourns, though not for long. In his wife he is reminded again of strength and of regeneration. The old lady's death is balanced...