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Using his laboratory expertise, Bjorn-Larsen developed a way to bind the chemical polyvinyl chloride to elastic girdle fabric and thereby make the inner cuffs of the garment sticky enough to hold up stockings. In 1965 Munsingwear, a major clothing manufacturer and maker of the familiar Penguin shirts, signed a contract with Bjorn-Larsen, promising him $1,000 a month as advances on royalties for exclusive use of his idea. But in late 1967 the payments stopped after totaling $14,000; Munsingwear told him that his idea had not panned...
...Japanese car companies so far have been resisting all government pressure to hold down exports to the U.S. But Katsuji Kawamata, chairman of Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datsuns, hinted that they might accept some compromise in order to head off even tougher U.S. action. Said he: "We cannot continue to act as if we couldn't care less what is happening over there...
These are facts of an industry's life, not its death. Hollywood may be a company town-as Scorsese notes, "Everything is geared to turning out the product"-but United Artists is not Chrysler. This gaggle of statistics can act as balm to the harried film maker's brow, but is unlikely to stanch the malaise. If Hollywood is conducting business as usual, few people seem enthusiastic about the enterprise. Robert Redford, 43, whose directorial debut, Ordinary People, is the odds-on favorite in the Oscar sweepstakes, asserts that the industry's "obsession with demographics has produced...
...House Without a Christmas Tree; of cancer; in New York City. A feminist who fought the Hollywood stereotype of women as victims and sex objects, she divorced Perry in 1971, and eight years later published a novel, Blue Pages, describing the exploitation of a female screenwriter by her film-maker husband...
Like Kane, the picture concerns a film maker (Krystyna Janda) who seeks to penetrate the past of a heroic-or, anyway, well-publicized-figure who has fallen from grace. Edgy, abrasive, in secure, she is in her own right a fascinating figure of the moment as she fights her way through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough...