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...high-velocity farce about fraternity life in the '60s, has made $102 million. Crude and silly, Animal House has an abundance of animal spirits, which is what audiences seem to want. Whatever the reason for its success, "Animal House is just the beginning, not the end," says Paramount Head Barry Diller. "That kind of Saturday Night Live consciousness, that visual entertainment, will become a" staple," Another zany sleeper was Up in Smoke, one long giggle to the age of dope, dealing mainly with the encounters between two aging potheads and the law. Smoke's budget was $1 million...
Well in advance of its official publication date last week, the book (Morrow; $9.95) was stocked in the stores; 235,000 copies are already in print. Christina got an advance of $225,000 when she turned in her manuscript, and paperback rights were sold for $750,000. In addition, Paramount has bought the movie rights for $300,000; Christina is getting $200,000 to write the screenplay; and her husband, David Koontz, who has produced mostly commercials up until now, is getting another large but undisclosed sum to produce the film. In more than 40 years in Hollywood, Joan herself...
...outside course instruction offerings, the police will be receiving some "in-house" training, Chafin says. He plans to personally train the crime prevention unit to improve their skills in burglar, murder, rape, larceny and assault investigation. In the future, Chafin believes there will be a rape prevention unit. "Paramount to the development of this is the hiring of women police officers and the creation of a 24-hour rape line," Chafin says...
...GOALS that the U.S. has in the region are buried beneath the weight of the Carter administration's big-power calculus. The paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
NEXT YEAR THE PARAMOUNT goal must be, as every principal in the reform effort has stressed, to replace the arbitrary, sometimes dangerous law that now governs our criminal justice system. But in emphasizing that goal it has been too easy first to rationalize repressive new laws, then to justify a monolithic approach that could frustrate the will of Congress...