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After two years here and a season and a half of ART plays at the Loeb Drama Center, it would be surprising if Brustein didn't feel like toning down his enthusiasm a bit. The ART has had its successes--paramount among them, the twin achievement of introducing a high-quality non-commercial repertory theater to a city that badly needed it, and creating undergraduate theater courses in a University that has shunned them in the past. In both cases, the success and failure of individual productions and courses matters less than the survival and growth of the company...
...time in a generation, MGM is the busiest studio in Hollywood. Last year Kerkorian brought in David Begelman, the controversial but successful former head of Columbia, to run the movie operation. So far this year, MGM has started eight films, compared with a total of 15 for Columbia, Disney, Paramount and Fox combined. Begelman has also announced that he will be developing 51 films. These include Tarzan, the Ape Man starring Bo Derek, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row with Nick Nolle, and American Rhapsody with Punk Rocker Deborah Harry...
...paramount concern in our in-service training to instruct police officers never to use firearms except when life is threatened," Davenport said...
DIED. William Meiklejohn, 78, Hollywood talent agent who during his 60 years as a scout, first for vaudeville and later for Paramount Pictures, used his self-avowed "seventh sense" to discover and promote such stars as Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and, in 1937, a young sportscaster in Des Moines named Ronald Reagan; after surgery for a perforated ulcer; in Burbank, Calif...
...annual report, released last week and devoted to the sticky issue of "technology transfer," Bok reiterates the issues that caused the Corporation to balk initially--issues of paramount importance to the future direction of the University, academically, financially and ethically. Because of the myriad of potential conflicts that could arise when a university haphazardly ventures into the business world, it is reassuring to see that these issues are still uppermost in Bok's mind...