Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banker who starts writing novels in jail, and transmutes global finance and oil politics into plausible thrillers about world economic collapse -well, there is only one: Paul Erdman. His third novel, The Crash of '79, is in its 25th week on the bestseller lists, has been bought by Paramount for a movie, and is diverting not only ordinary readers but also corporate executives and government officials, who assure each other that its forecast of doom will not come true. Certainly not. Of course...
...Tango look like tiddlywinks. The new picture is a year late, $5 million over budget, and-with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...
...charged Grimaldi with censorship and, half seriously, with putting "a kind of curse on me-a macumba." In Hollywood a top film executive suggested that after the succès de scandale of Last Tango, the big studios probably invested in Bertolucci without scrutinizing his plans. (In addition to Paramount's U.S. investment, United Artists and 20th Century Fox have bought various foreign rights.) "It's a mess," said the executive, "in which blame can be shared by all the participants...
...valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie's rejection? Nobody will say so outright, but it is no secret that privately some Paramount executives are appalled by it. Says one: "The last half-hour of the film is a gigantic May Day rally...
...group: "If no resources are provided to assist children, the new rights do them no good." She argues that "the juvenile justice system has become an uncaring machine. It desperately needs more money, more people and more thought so that the long-term needs of young people can be paramount again." Experiments like the San Francisco clinic are effective challenges to indifference,.she concludes: "I hope there will soon be Carole Brills in every city in the country...