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There's no business like covering show business, especially when it reaches the global proportions of Paramount's ambitious production The Great Gatsby. In England, Cultural Correspondent Lawrence Malkin talked with Director Jack Clayton in London and drove deep into the Surrey countryside to interview Mia Farrow...
Janos and Correspondent Patricia Delaney then teamed up to interview Paramount President Frank Yablans and Production Head Robert Evans. A former speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson, Janos is no stranger to hyperbole. But even he was amazed by Paramount's dazzling promotional acrobatics. "We're in the business of making magic," Yablans told him. Our case study of Hollywood goes behind the cameras this week to examine the mechanics-and the hazards-of that claim...
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the creation. Right before your eyes, Paramount Pictures will attempt, using a rare blend of ancient skills and modern moxie, to manufacture a blockbuster hit. The blockbuster has, for the last dozen years or so, been cherished as the Miracle Aid cure for an ailing film industry and, for the moment at least, Paramount is rapidly becoming known as blockbuster-broker No. 1. In the way that one picture often constitutes a Hollywood trend, two can make a reputation, and Paramount's current supremacy is based on a pair of recent box office-boggling...
...year-old girl who died?" and "Make him an offer he can't refuse" into household catch phrases have another entry in the giant sweepstakes: a new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's luminous classic The Great Gatsby. If selling can make it so, Paramount intends for the movie to be bigger than either of its predecessors. "After Love Story and The Godfather," says Paramount President Frank Yablans, "I think of Gatsby as the Triple Crown...
...peripheral to the decision to publish an account of the author's lie. Through his lie, Horovitz deceived the public, and the wisdom of the proposed penalty, not the wisdom of revealing the truth, should be at issue. I believe that full airing of truth is in itself a paramount social good and only in exceptional circumstances far removed from this one would I withhold the facts. Perhaps Horovitz will oblige by presenting his own version of the role of truth and journalism in a future play...