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...Years ago at Paramount, I'd find out about Road pictures from a street sweeper at the studio," recalled Dorothy Lamour, 60, who as a girl of 22 made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this...
Before it was released, Coonskin was a "controversial" movie. Representatives of CORE who saw it in preview denounced it for trafficking in vicious racial stereotypes, and this anger caused its original distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired a model of the Enterprise. Paramount is now planning to make a Star Trek movie. Glubegk enkov (Live long and prosper), as Vulcanites would say. Spock...
...Enterprise Skipper James T. Kirk knows his Operations Manual ("Nature and Duration of Mission: Galaxy exploration and investigation: five years"). Thus 16,000 Trekkies who paid to attend last week's Chicago convention, the biggest ever held, have spent considerable time writing SST (Save Star Trek) letters to Paramount Television, which owns all rights to the series. Their campaign has swamped Paramount's in boxes since production was halted in 1968. Star Trek addicts argued that its popularity would ensure profits if it could be revived...
...come to this, because the critics and the friendly folks at Gulf & Western (owners of Paramount, which distributed the film) seemed determined to push Nashville, even though they'd never liked that weird Robert Altman before, and had a hell of a time trying to figure out what to say about his new film. So when the onslaught of praise rained in, as much as for any picture in recent memory, it just about ruined the effectiveness of the film itself...