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...Winning the Ivy championship is obviously of paramount importance to us," Cleary said, "but the game carries added meaning because a victory may insure us of a second-place seeding in the upcoming tournament...
...When Actor Donald Sutherland, 37, was signed for Paramount's movie The Day of the Locust last August, he asked for and got an unusual clause in his contract: paternity leave. It seems that Actress Francine Racette, 27, with whom he had been living for two years, was expecting. To prepare for the baby's birth, the couple studied the Bradley method, a natural-birth technique in which the father helps deliver the child. Last week, when Francine's labor began, he took her to West Park Hospital in Los Angeles County and provided last-minute coaching...
...collage education (or reeducation) in film history. In the good old, bad old days, studios were often criticized for trying to imitate one another's successes, thereby creating tedious cycles. This time, however, the competition should be encouraged to follow Warner Brothers' lead. MGM, come on! Paramount, let's hear from you! Richard Schickel
...first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather, which grossed more than $155 million for Paramount...
...Under it, he prospered as a glove salesman and entered the movies as a partner of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 they made The Squaw Man, one of the first feature-length films produced in Hollywood. The trio sold out to the combine that became Paramount, and Goldfish teamed with two brothers named Selwyn to make "Goldwyn" pictures. He took the name with him when he was forced out of the concern in 1922- before it merged with Metro and Mayer to form perhaps the most famous movie name of all. "A self-made...