Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nostalgia and the dynastic sweep of an Italian-American Gone With the Wind. The Godfather, which will be released next week, is a movie that seems to have everything. Canny producers know that when a movie has everything, it needs something more: a sequel. What could the brains at Paramount come up with to match The Godfather? Something to do with the Mafia, something rife with greed, intrigue and passion. For that, they might consider The Making of the Godfather. The story behind the movie has all those elements and then some...
...sooner had Paramount announced plans to film Mario Puzo's novel about the powerful leader of a Mafia family than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western...
...melodrama was right in keeping with the kind of picture Paramount had in mind. The company wanted a quickie exploiting the book's success, shot in modern dress in St. Louis on a relatively low budget of $2.5 million. To direct it, Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans approached Peter Yates, who had established his thriller credentials with Bullitt; Richard Brooks, who shot In Cold Blood; and even Greek Director Costa Gavras, the man who made Z. When, for various reasons, none of these choices worked out, Evans went for a dark horse: Francis Ford Coppola, who was only...
Love Story, Paramount's blockbuster lackluster tear-jerker. Harvard Square. 2:15, 5:55, 9:35. With Plaza Suite, 4 and 7:40. Until March...
...move in. In the first decade of operation graduate students, especially those in the Law School, took rooms in the Houses. Lowell felt that such contact between undergraduates and graduate students would be desirable, but in the long run it was incompatible with a goal that must have been paramount for him--full participation by the College. The requirement for all undergraduates to live in the Houses only came as a matter of financial exigency during the Second World War. There is no doubt, however, that the Houses were felt to be a success from the very beginning...