Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paramount had paid 75 Gs for the script. Segal kicked back ten of them to the movie company. For promotion. Paramount kicked in ten more. It paid off. The scenarist scrambled 100,000 miles across country. Selling, pushing. Merchandising. He appeared on Cavett, Carson. "I'm kind of a folk hero at Yale," he liked to say. "The closest thing to a Beatle." Fraternities called him up en masse; Middle America wrote in; most important, publishing houses and film companies used Love Story as a new shibboleth. The escape hatch had been opened. Erich...
...scrapes. His first film, Shadows, was begun independently and as an act of love. It was finished on contributions from a radio audience who heard Cassavetes plead for funds on the Jean Shepherd show late one night. His next film, Too Late Blues, was financed-and controlled-by Paramount. Stanley Kramer, executive producer of A Child Is Waiting and a director himself (On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg), fired Cassavetes before he could even complete editing Child...
...Crossroads of Cinema. A pregnant woman carrying a camera approaches him and asks the way. Down one road, he says, is the militant cinema; down the other the cinema of adventure, of spectacle. Godard maintains that there are two films to be made: another of the type "Nixon-Paramount" has been ordering for fifty years-a Western, an adventure film, any film that clings to the idea of realistic representation; or a militant film, a film whose anti-representational form challenges the ideology implicit in that same old Western...
...paramount problems of our time is that we must transcend the old patterns of power politics in which nations sought to exploit every volatile situation for their own advantage or to squeeze the maximum advantage for themselves out of every negotiation...
...Paramount Pop. Barefoot in the Park-the Simon farce about newlyweds in the Manhattan walk-up with the leaky skylight and squeaky mother-in-law-has been transmogrified by Paramount into all-blackness. The premiere was predictable yet sprightly, as the hero (Scoey Mitchlll), a token Negro in a fashionable law firm, was cajoled into moonlighting as a butler at a party, where, naturally, his boss showed up. Offscreen, Scoey has beaten the 13-week jinx in his own way. After hassling all summer, Mitchlll popped a Paramount vice president in the face with just twelve shows finished...