Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Michael Cimino shoots a $30 million western...
...minor footnote to history. No longer. In fact, if the Guinness Book of World Records ever devises an entry for History's Most Expensive Minor Footnote, the frontier fracas may find itself at the top of the list. Credit for the elevation goes to Michael Cimino, 38, the Oscar-winning director of The Deer Hunter. Cimino's new film, Heaven's Gate, will dramatize the Johnson County War as lavishly as his last film did the war in Viet Nam, but the price will be steeper. The Deer Hunter was a $12 million movie. By the time...
...Coppola put up more than half the money for Apocalypse, while Heaven's Gate is being almost entirely financed by U.A. The dialogue between director and studio, according to one production insider, was "switchblades and garbage-can covers," but Field claims to be unperturbed. Says he: "I think Michael is making a masterpiece. We are trying to do everything in the world to keep that picture going...
...MICHAEL BOSKIN, 33. When he was an undergraduate at Berkeley in the 1960s, Boskin remembers, the young were radicals and the older people conservatives. In his profession now, he finds the alignments almost exactly reversed-because of the disillusionment of the students of yesterday. Says he: "The older generation held out too much promise for being able to fine-tune the economy and eliminate all its problems by Government intervention...
Perhaps if Coppola had succeeded in his efforts to recruit a star for the part, Willard might have commanded an audience's interest and empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write a narration that attempts to fill in Willard's personality ex post facto on the sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure...