Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no business like covering show business, especially when it reaches the global proportions of Paramount's ambitious production The Great Gatsby. In England, Cultural Correspondent Lawrence Malkin talked with Director Jack Clayton in London and drove deep into the Surrey countryside to interview Mia Farrow...
Janos and Correspondent Patricia Delaney then teamed up to interview Paramount President Frank Yablans and Production Head Robert Evans. A former speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson, Janos is no stranger to hyperbole. But even he was amazed by Paramount's dazzling promotional acrobatics. "We're in the business of making magic," Yablans told him. Our case study of Hollywood goes behind the cameras this week to examine the mechanics-and the hazards-of that claim...
...peripheral to the decision to publish an account of the author's lie. Through his lie, Horovitz deceived the public, and the wisdom of the proposed penalty, not the wisdom of revealing the truth, should be at issue. I believe that full airing of truth is in itself a paramount social good and only in exceptional circumstances far removed from this one would I withhold the facts. Perhaps Horovitz will oblige by presenting his own version of the role of truth and journalism in a future play...
...Winning the Ivy championship is obviously of paramount importance to us," Cleary said, "but the game carries added meaning because a victory may insure us of a second-place seeding in the upcoming tournament...
...collage education (or reeducation) in film history. In the good old, bad old days, studios were often criticized for trying to imitate one another's successes, thereby creating tedious cycles. This time, however, the competition should be encouraged to follow Warner Brothers' lead. MGM, come on! Paramount, let's hear from you! Richard Schickel