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...Nearly five hours later they stagger out into the dawn's hazy light, exhausted and exhilarated. In midafternoon, Menahem Golan, the Israeli producer who now heads his own distribution company, sits on a teeming Carlton terrace flanked by Stalin-era-size posters of his stars: Faye Dunaway, Robert Mitchum, Brooke Shields, Lou Ferrigno. "I have sold a million dollars in film rights each day at Cannes," Golan purrs, but "I did better last month at the American Film Market in Los Angeles." Night falls, and for the assiduous epicure, hopes rise: before long he may be amid sparkling silverware...
...gathering legal onslaught is reminiscent of the mid-1950s, when lawsuits, particularly those by Robert Mitchum and Heiress Doris Duke, severely dampened Confidential magazine's penchant for unfounded gossip. Confidential's circulation plummeted from 4.1 million to about 300,000, and the magazine folded in 1969. The Enquirer boasts that the Burnett case is the first libel trial since Generoso Pope Jr. bought the tabloid in 1952. But that is because it occasionally settles out of court...
...earlier works Winner sometimes demonstrated a certain vulgar energy, but even that has congealed as he respectfully confronts this "classic," and he seems to have communicated only that to his actors. As Marlowe, Robert Mitchum seems merely weary. Sarah Miles and Candy Clark, as the rich, spoiled and sexy sisters who inspire so much greed in others, as well as James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, John Mills, Joan Collins and Edward Fox, as assorted villains, victims and cops, all seem to be doing turns in a variety show rather than acting in an intelligently integrated drama. The result...
Currently it is the nation's top-grossing film, having run up $62 million in receipts in six weeks. Wheeling as usual, Begelman set up a distribution deal for Robert Mitchum's new film, The Amsterdam Kill, and signed Robert Redford to star in Electric Horseman...
...easiest way to win accounts from a rival is to hire the brokers who service them. Even the firms that count themselves aggrieved may be wooing away employees from rivals. Only a month before its Fresno office defected, Bateman Eichler hired five members of the trading department of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton Inc. And Loeb Rhoades, in response to the Bache complaint, asserted that Bache two years ago had lured away its entire foreign institutional department. Loeb Rhoades did not sue, says a spokesman, because "those are the breaks of the game...