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Bluhdorn is fortunate, because five years ago his Paramount executives bankrolled an obscure author, Mario Puzo, while he wrote The Godfather. Paramount got the rights to the screen version for a mere $80,000 plus 21% of the net profit for Puzo. Thanks to fine scripting, directing and acting, the picture stunned both critics and commoners (TIME, March 13). Only eight weeks after release, it has grossed nearly $50 million.* By the end of G. & W.'s fiscal year in July, The Godfather is expected to show a pretax profit of $10 million. According to industry experts, the movie...
...Kellerman, Gene Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Tom Lehrer, Alan Jay Lerner, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Maiden, Shelly Manne, Fredric March, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Vera Miles, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Poston, Janice Rule, Barbara Rush, Robert Ryan, Eva Marie Saint, Artie Shaw, Tom Smothers, Sonny & Cher, Rod Steiger, Mario Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Robert Vaughn, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, Ruth Warrick, Dennis Weaver, Raquel Welch, Gene Wilder...
Heracles could have used enlightenment. The plot is complicated, dealing with the hero's military and political feats, full of comparisons between then and now. Massive, glowering sets by the late C. Mario Cristini conjured up ancient architectural glories before which Indiana's large cast vocalized their lengthy roles with apparent ease, acting with an intensity that would have done credit to any major theater...
...GODFATHER PAPERS AND OTHER CONFESSIONS by Mario Puzo. 252 pages. Putnam...
...place? Well, some technicians had been giving the Bolivians advice on oil and mining, and one man had been serving as conductor of the national symphony orchestra. But what else? Bolivian officials unmistakably implied that the Russians had also been financing leftist terrorist activity. The matter, said Foreign Minister Mario Gutierrez was "a question of sovereignty...