Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before it was released, Coonskin was a "controversial" movie. Representatives of CORE who saw it in preview denounced it for trafficking in vicious racial stereotypes, and this anger caused its original distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...Enterprise Skipper James T. Kirk knows his Operations Manual ("Nature and Duration of Mission: Galaxy exploration and investigation: five years"). Thus 16,000 Trekkies who paid to attend last week's Chicago convention, the biggest ever held, have spent considerable time writing SST (Save Star Trek) letters to Paramount Television, which owns all rights to the series. Their campaign has swamped Paramount's in boxes since production was halted in 1968. Star Trek addicts argued that its popularity would ensure profits if it could be revived...
...come to this, because the critics and the friendly folks at Gulf & Western (owners of Paramount, which distributed the film) seemed determined to push Nashville, even though they'd never liked that weird Robert Altman before, and had a hell of a time trying to figure out what to say about his new film. So when the onslaught of praise rained in, as much as for any picture in recent memory, it just about ruined the effectiveness of the film itself...
Monkey Business. It's gotten so that I don't like to watch the Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script...
...Running a major studio is more difficult than running a small country," Paramount Production Boss Robert Evans once observed. Now, after three failed marriages (including one to Actress Ali MacGraw) and a string of box office successes (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story), Evans is abdicating his Paramount throne. This week Evans, 44, begins anew as an independent producer under contract to Paramount, responsible for up to 24 new films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit...