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...Dismember Mama. Playing in Boston, paired with The Blood Splattered Bride. This seems an appropriate moment to mention that the new feature movies in town ain't so distinguished this week. At the Paramount...
Karefa-Smart traces his determined optimism and sense of community to his childhood among the indigenous tribes of Sierra Leone. His grandfather was Paramount Chief of the area, and concern for all of the Chief's subjects naturally flowed to others in the ruling family...
...With or without a supersell, Fitzgerald's Gatsby is a masterpiece. I for one expect to see a masterpiece, not because "Ballantine's was there," but because Scott was. If Yablans, Evans, et al., have remained true to Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Paramount will have its blockbuster; if not, no amount of visual beauty can save...
...political and military advantage. One constant concern is that agreements on limiting strategic weapons will eventually work against the U.S. Another is that for the sake of preserving détente, the U.S. has become almost a partner in immorality. Washington, maintaining that peaceful relations with Moscow are paramount and that it has no business interfering in Soviet internal affairs, looks the other way when Moscow expels dissenters like Solzhenitsyn and compels dissatisfied Soviet Jews to remain...
...interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...