Word: paramount
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...other than what it is. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applies to cinema, and Holzman finally loses all illusions about the possibilities of pure documentary; lived life recorded is no longer lived life; transparent, diamond-hard cinema verite is no closer to the real than the images on the Nixon-Paramount silver screen...
...particularly revealing illustration of the economic crunch is the case of Mission: Impossible. Paramount Television sells the series to CBS for upwards of $210,000 per episode, plus perhaps another 10% to 15% for one summer repeat. Even at that top dollar. Paramount reportedly loses about $30,000 a week on the multistarred, action-crammed production. Mission will ultimately be a moneymaker-but only after it goes off network and the studio is then allowed to syndicate second and subsequent rerun rights. Thus, though the show may well be renewed, its producers would probably not grieve overmuch if it should...
...paramount issue at the Singapore meeting of Commonwealth leaders was Britain's intention to resume arms sales to the white-supremacist regime of South Africa. At one point during the debate, the heads of delegations from the 31 Commonwealth nations left their huge elliptical conference table and retired to a basement room, locking the doors to all aides. There the heads of state threshed out the highly charged issue. They reached grudging agreement on a compromise, but then, in an atmosphere that one participant described as "unbelievably emotional and bitter," redebated it during the formal session until...
Born. To Ali MacGraw, 31, romantic star of Love Story, and Robert Evans, 40, Paramount production chief: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight...
...Paramount in this discussion is the question of the University's social responsibility. According to the report. there are two models for a university-the "classical" and the "pragmatic" -representing both the far left and the right respectively on the social consciousness scale. The problem. the report says, is not which is the better of the two; it is how to achieve the best balance between them. And, supposedly, this can best be achieved by looking at social issues as three distinct types. These models include: (1) Those decisions which directly affect the University-where there is a "collateral" effect...