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...Variety's listing of Hollywood's top ten moneymakers for November: 1) In Love and War (20th Century-Fox), 2) Houseboat (Paramount), 3) The Last Hurrah (Columbia), 4) South Pacific (Magna), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) Gigi (M-G-M), 7) Party Girl (M-G-M), 8) Windjammer (De Rochemont), 9 The Defiant Ones (U.A.), 10) Home Before Dark (Warner...
Lately, many Mexicans have been demanding that Pemex be run as a business, with normal profits for reinvestment in development. But López Mateos is almost forced by his natural nationalistic inclination to keep the state paramount and Pemex its old, slow-moving self. He might also be inclined...
Houseboat (Paramount), according to the advancemen, is "a story of Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...
...historic conference. Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home. For the Colonial Office's big reception at the Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial...
...many cases, e.g., The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules. Says Luigi Luraschi, Paramount's agent in charge of code compliance: "Once upon a time the movies had a tendency to leer at sex. I think perhaps the first inkling was in the good foreign pictures shown here that handled sex rather forthrightly but still in good taste. American producers began to see the light...