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...soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years Paul was back, with $100 from his father and six songs tucked under his arm. He was dossing down in a friend's bathtub when ABC-Paramount Records gave him a contract. Diana was his first cut. It was an immediate hit and went on to become the second biggest grossing record in history, right after Bing Crosby's White Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Anka's Aweigh | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...with their production. He notes that Steve Krantz, of Fritz the Cat and Cooley High fame, is producing a feature film on Spiderman--not animated, but live action. Another director plans to put out a movie based on Lee's character the Hulk. And according to Lee, Paramount Television is planning a television series based on the Fantastic Four, another group of superheroes created...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Who is the Newest, Most Breath-Taking, Most Sensational Super-Hero of All...? | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

...view that dissenting speech could never legally be curtailed. He followed a similar pattern in suits concerning the rights of criminal defendants. No matter what the real or imagined burdens on the criminal-justice system, Douglas insisted that a citizen's constitutional rights had to be paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Court's Uncompromising Libertarian | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...familiar sonorous voice and stately presence never seem quite right in a thriller. Yet at 68, Laurence Olivier is again swapping the stage for the cinema and co-starring with Dustin Hoffman in Paramount's forthcoming spy flick, Marathon Man. Olivier plays the part of a professional assassin and is scheduled to sprint about Manhattan next month in the filming of a chase scene. Such sprightly plans are rather extraordinary for a man who has been fighting a long battle against cancer of the prostate, thrombosis and other serious ailments. Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1975 | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...matter that Won Ton Ton bears a striking resemblance to another German shepherd screen star of the same era. A Los Angeles judge has already decided against a producer of the Rin Tin Tin television series and the wife of the movie dog's trainer, who had charged Paramount Studios with unfair competition. Acting, after all, is a dog-eat-dog business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1975 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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