Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monarchs. But they were the "I wouldn't-let-my-daughter-see-a-movie-like-that" types, despite the fact that they did worse things than any movies they imagined could show. Their successors, though some still have tinges of the old craziness (Frank Yablans, just-fired head of Paramount, wants to be President of the United States--It Can Happen Here) are essentially businessmen. Every studio but Twentieth Century Fox has been acquired by a conglomerate, and the products show it. You could see it Tuesday night on the show. Francis Ford Coppola, accepting the Best Picture Award...
...objective surveyor of the international scene, and Cole's portrayal of him as a Lone Eagle victimized by a powerful administration intolerant of dissent, is patently invalid. Lindbergh was a Germanophile, extremely sympathetic to Nazi policies in Germany, and obviously a racist. He saw the Soviet Union as the paramount world danger and said frequently that he would rather ally himself with the Nazis than with the U.S.S.R., a nation of "godlessness, cruelty, and barbarism." It would be totally unreasonable to suggest that Lindbergh's views on these questions failed to color his perspective on foreign policy. To present...
...conclusions we draw, then, are these: even when some members of the university fail to meet their social and ethical responsibilities, the paramount obligation of the university is to protect their right to free expression. This obligation can and should be enforced by appropriate formal sanctions. If the university's overriding commitment to free expression is to be sustained, secondary social and ethical responsibilities must be left to the informal processes of session, example, and argument...
...with his editors and his friends at a restaurant called, with looming irony, The Butcher Shop. "Would you believe this?" Coppola laughed at one point. "It's just like college, doing a play: Johnny Cazale acts in it, Elly does the sets. And Bob," he added, turning to Paramount Executive Robert Evans, "Bob is the rich kid whose father will print up the programs...
...Everyone knew there would be a standoff if we met under formal conditions," says Strasberg, so the meeting was arranged socially. Coppola and Strasberg talked about Toscanini; Coppola's father had played flute with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Soon afterward, Paramount placed the official call. Strasberg told the studio to make him an offer, which he promptly refused. "Ten thousand dollars-that was silly," he sniffs...