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...Apocalypse Now-and made you gasp with public previews on two continents, perpetually revised endings, ruptured psyches! Last year they made you weep with the spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart! It will be presented-without the sponsorship of Paramount-at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in the heart of glamorous Manhattan! So come! See a high-wire artiste, a pratfalling clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...also Hammett, German Director Wim Wenders' moody detective drama, and Escape Artist, Caleb Deschanel's saga of a runaway boy-have yet to be seen. The Chase Manhattan Bank, which had lent millions to Coppola, cut off the funding. Staff salaries were met with the help of Paramount Pictures, which bought one of Zoetrope's scripts and offered Coppola a low-interest loan. Paramount also secured the distribution rights to One from the Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...large part of me." It is also a huge part of the film's budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting was suspended as Coppola wooed other investors-and in August, Paramount showed a very rough cut to a group of disappointed exhibitors. Coppola the lion tamer felt caged; it was time to crack the whip and see who jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...month might require the Administration to pay as much as $20 billion in support payments to farmers in case a new embargo is ordered. Reagan also refused, wisely, to suspend U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting the number of medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, an issue that is of paramount importance to the NATO allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions as a Symbol | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...view of dining, Mrs. Trilling's view of young people who actually took over college buildings in the 1960s in understandably unsympathetic. But even if her essay "On the Steps of Low Library," from her book We Must March My Darlings accords little credit to the student radicals, her paramount concern never ventures from the anarchic, antisocial nature of their protest. Indeed, today she seems almost wistful that no constructive, socially beneficial protests have occurred on the campuses. "The students don't protest anything," she says. "I was told that the students were agitated by cuts in student loans...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: A View From the Heights: Talking With Diana Trilling | 1/8/1982 | See Source »

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