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Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...
...Commandments (Paramount...
...been high enough (TIME, Nov. 12). What softened the blow for Schary was a $1,000,000-plus settlement to be spread over about ten years. Schary is the fourth Hollywood production boss to go in recent months. The others: 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Paramount's Don Hartman, Columbia's Jerry Wald. Schary's ousting put the movie industry's seal on the end of an old era-the period of major studios with their assembly-line production of dozens of movies every year. The new era features independent production in which each...
...Mountain (Paramount) is a fairly interesting attempt to combine in one picture a hit and a myth. Based on the 1953 novel by France's Henri Troyat, which in turn was suggested by a 1950 plane crash in the Alps, The Mountain tells the story of an adventure that leads its adventurers to the high places of the spiritual as well as of the physical world. The adventure is intended to represent the struggle between Good and Evil, as that struggle is lived out against a symbol that expresses both the way and the goal of life: The Mountain...
Producer DeMille had trouped churchmen of all denominations to the previews, solicited their comments. Instead of the usual reviewers' blurbs ("Terrific" -Crowther. New York Times), Paramount's huge ads could now carry blurbs from churchmen ("Moving"-Spellman, New York Archdiocese). The line-up was impressive. Methodist Dr. Ralph 'Sock-man: "It brings the authentic views of the Bible's landscape to the man living on Main Street.'' Dr. W. A. Criswell of Dal las' First Baptist Church: "We are not the same after we have lived through the experience of following Moses through...