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...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...
...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...
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...NUMBERS (MCA; $6.98). Following his disappointing rock opera Quadrophenia, The Who's chief composer, Peter Townshend, has his dropout muse back in residence. The British rock quartet, unsettled by internal squabbles and individual efforts at solo LPs and films, pulled together for some properly granitic music making this time. Though there is no formal story line, the album is nonetheless slyly conceptual. Townshend's nine songs, plus John Entwistle's Success Story, evoke a rock star's fight against time. Nicky Hopkins' vigorous keyboards, added to the band's own mix of acoustic...
...Philips-MCA's laser system has an added attraction. By letting the laser beam circle over the same portion of track, the player can freeze a single frame (it takes one revolution to make one picture). It can also run the images in slow motion and even go backward with only the push of a button-all potentially valuable features for educational programs. Each competitor is convinced that its approach is superior. But about one point there is no disagreement: either system could signal a major change in home entertainment habits...