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...what amounts to a personality cult. Last week's riots, however, suggest that he cannot depend on such unquestioning adulation in the future. "The kids in the streets are too young to remember Bourguiba as the hero of independence," says a foreign analyst. "For them, he is the paramount symbol of the status quo, and they can curse him one day and cheer him the next." As the time approaches when Bourguiba will have to pass his power to a successor, Tunisia's stability may depend on the regime's success in satisfying that new and volatile...
...people. Wisely, it was agreed that all three categories should be regarded only in context and as being of equal value. Security matters, taken on their own, offer too little chance of success. The same applies to an isolated policy concerning the free movement of people. Cooperation is of paramount importance. If we succeed in extending, step by step, cooperation in the fields of science, food, ecology, transportation, economics, energy and development policy, then arms control and even free movement of people will ultimately come into the range of what is possible. However, if we refuse to cooperate with...
...plotting in Flashdance was as loose as the dancing, but, says Dawn Steel, the Paramount executive in charge of shepherding the film, "it was not designed to be a video movie. It happened to have a modular structure. The modules were interchangeable-they were even moved around in the editing-and that's what made the movie adaptable to MTV." Indeed, the theme from Flashdance, fitted out with appropriate clips from the movie, was an MTV smash. The Flashdance phenomenon was a confluence of good commercial instincts and some savvy guesswork, and now that Hollywood has found...
Some companies are copying Paramount. Warner plans to release Risky Business at $39.98, and MCA will charge a similar amount for Jaws 3. Other firms are keeping prices high. Says Myron Hyman, president of the MGM/UA home video division, which has sold 50,000 copies of Poltergeist at $79.95: "To make a decent return on your investment, the number of units you have to move at $39.95 is phenomenal." RCA/Columbia, which also charges $79.95, has two tapes in the Top Ten on Billboard's bestsellers chart: Blue Thunder (3) and Gandhi...
Surprisingly, the home-video craze has not yet reduced movie theater attendance, which is projected to increase 2% to 3% this year. In fact, Paramount has come up with a way to make cassette sales a boon to the box office. The Raiders tape contains tantalizing previews from a follow-up coming to theaters in May: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...