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...from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer of The Godfather, which will probably be the biggest moneymaker in cinema history...
Bluhdorn is fortunate, because five years ago his Paramount executives bankrolled an obscure author, Mario Puzo, while he wrote The Godfather. Paramount got the rights to the screen version for a mere $80,000 plus 21% of the net profit for Puzo. Thanks to fine scripting, directing and acting, the picture stunned both critics and commoners (TIME, March 13). Only eight weeks after release, it has grossed nearly $50 million.* By the end of G. & W.'s fiscal year in July, The Godfather is expected to show a pretax profit of $10 million. According to industry experts, the movie...
RARELY has there been such a bizarrely precise intersection of fantasy and brutal reality. In half a dozen Manhattan theaters one morning last week, projectors were unreeling the mustily violent world of The Godfather, the Mafia wars of 1945-55. While Paramount's actors did their impersonations of caporegimes and button men in supposedly archaic rites of murder, the bright black Cadillacs were nosing up to the curb outside Guide's funeral home in Brooklyn...
Last Year at Marienbad was the paramount example of this ideal director-writer relationship. Oddly enough, Resnais did not know Robbe-Grillet, and had read none of his books, before the producer suggested they try working together. Within a week after their first meeting, where they "agreed about everything," Resnais had read all of Robbe-Grillet's novels, and Robbe-Grillet had submitted four possible script projects. The writer and the director discovered themselves in each other's work: "I felt," explains Resnais, "that we had already made a film together." In the work on Marienbad which followed, visual...
...series of black "active adventure comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier, who stars with Harry Belafonte. Paramount will release The Legend of Nigger Charley, about a slave who kills his overseer and heads for the frontier-a Southern western...