Word: mca
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Hollywood is sky-high over the Israeli rescue of 104 hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. "The mission reads like a movie script," rejoiced MCA President Sidney Sheinberg. Thus, only 72 hours after the commandos struck, the studios were plotting missions of their own-to see which would be the first onscreen with a film version. At Shein-berg's Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes...
Died. Taft B. Schreiber, 68, art collector, Republican Party fund raiser and executive committee member of MCA Inc.; of complications following a blood transfusion; in Los Angeles. Originally an office boy, Schreiber organized MCA's motion picture division, now Universal Pictures. He raised money for Richard Nixon and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Several years ago, he switched allegiance to President Gerald Ford and, at the time of his death, was national co-chairman of the President Ford Committee, a fund-raising group...
...budget movies that have been drawing the crowds. The Godfather cost Paramount (now a subsidiary of Gulf + Western) $6 million to make, and so far has returned $145 million in worldwide rentals. Jaws (production cost: $9 million) probably will bring Universal and its corporate parent. MCA Inc., $180 million by the time it completes its first runs worldwide. Warner Brothers' All the President's Men (production cost: $7 million) has started off like the box office smash of all time; in its first six weeks it has earned $14 million in rentals in the U.S. and Canada, breaking...
...studios put up part of the money and take care of distribution. Thus United Artists, a subsidiary of Transamerica Corp., will pay only 20% of the cost of producing the two war movies. Indeed, studios are generally loath to spend as liberally as in the era of Cleopatra. Says MCA President Sidney Sheinberg: "If Jaws had cost $20 million, we would not have made...
...course, I said the same thing about Tanya Tucker when she started out at age thirteen. Her latest is called Lovin' and Learnin' (MCA), and she may get plenty of the former, but she can use a lot more of the latter. This album suffers from trying to make her sound less country, which is as hopeless as trying to make Frank Church sound less pompous. The worst numbers (it's a tough choice) are "Ain't That a Shame", a pathetic attempt at a rock number, and "Makin' Love Don't Always Make Love Grow" (honest, folks). Tanya...