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...THEN, as Sutherland quickly explains, as far as he's concerned pushing MGM's Paul Mazurky-directed Alex in Wonderland, is just an excuse for him to voice his support for the Peace Treaty and his disgust with the war. So while his two-day visit to Boston includes a day-long round of interviews, tapings and television appearances, it primarily centers on a fund-raising cocktail party with Noam Chomsky speaking against the war and Sutherland reading passages from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun, the money raised going to support various drives to bring the People...
...emerged from MGM, however, the film became the story of the maturing of youth through battle. And the tacked-on narration included such glorious howlers as these lines from the "prologue...
...story all over Hollywood, unless the business is careful, may turn out to be Love Story in disguise. MGM Production Chief Herb Solow is dead set against imitation, but adds: "We have a couple of romantic projects we developed over the years. We've taken them out again for a fresh look in the light of the success of Ryan's Daughter and Love Story."1 American International Pictures, which likes to exhibit the courage of other people's convictions, is at the head of the line. From the company that gave you Beach Blanket Bingo...
...recall, was the year Hollywood attempted to cash in on the so-called youth market ( Getting Straight and The Strawberry Statement, both vile), the year three major studios placed their fiscal futures on the line with expensive extravaganzas (Paramount, Catch-22; 20th-Century Fox, Tora! Tora! Tora!; and MGM, Ryan's Daughter ), and the year Europe's three best-known directors came up with relatively disappointing work (Fellini, Satyricon; Antonioni, Zabriskie Point; Bergman, The Passion of Anna...
...scene is an MGM staff meeting on an out-of-the-way bench at Knott's Berry Farm...