Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hills, whose father was a building-supplies millionaire, spent her childhood attending private schools, horseback riding, playing tennis (she was captain of the Stanford women's tennis team) and living in the Beverly Hills mansion that was used as a set for Paramount's Sunset Boulevard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-author of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice...
...must sell now. Even the greatest of Hollywood's camp creations is not to be spared. For the past two months, ads have been splashed throughout the press proclaiming that King Kong will love and die again-not once but twice. In early January both Universal and Paramount will start production on $12 million remakes of the 1933 classic. Universal believes that the film will gross somewhere between Jaws and Earthquake. Paramount's director Dino de Laurentiis declaims boldly that King Kong "is still the most exciting original motion picture event of all time...
...Over at Paramount, De Laurentiis is brooding about Kong in a different way. He is building a miniature Manhattan to be crushed by Kong's vast paws. Paramount's Kong is to be destroyed '70s-style with nuclear-tipped rockets, no doubt as he chews on the antenna atop the World Trade Center...
...soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years Paul was back, with $100 from his father and six songs tucked under his arm. He was dossing down in a friend's bathtub when ABC-Paramount Records gave him a contract. Diana was his first cut. It was an immediate hit and went on to become the second biggest grossing record in history, right after Bing Crosby's White Christmas...
...with their production. He notes that Steve Krantz, of Fritz the Cat and Cooley High fame, is producing a feature film on Spiderman--not animated, but live action. Another director plans to put out a movie based on Lee's character the Hulk. And according to Lee, Paramount Television is planning a television series based on the Fantastic Four, another group of superheroes created...