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...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American- TIME, Feb. 25]? THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...American moviemen take about the same precautions in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...they counted up their season's grosses, moviemen, like retailers everywhere, delivered their verdict: it was a good season, but not the best. Audiences were as fickle as ever, and with ticket costs approaching and sometimes surpassing $5, they were not about to stand in line for anything less than guaranteed entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holiday Winners and Losers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Left to his own prose, Dunne is apt to say "vicissitudes" when he means "troubles." But he is a good reporter who unobtrusively sets scene after scene, constructing his book out of quotes that show the moviemen to be innocent of cruelty or dirty dealing, but guilty (in an engagingly matter-of-fact way) of venality and grossness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Valley of the Dolls Salad | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...growing mass audience has been prepared for change and experiment both by life and art. It has seen-and accepted-the questioning of moral traditions, the demythologizing of ideals, the pulverizing of esthetic principles in abstract painting, atonal music and the experimental novel. Beyond that, oddly enough, younger moviemen credit television with a major role in paving the way for acceptance of the new in films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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