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...scared silly. I don't even know what I'm supposed to say," said Charlotte Ford Niarchos of her latest project, a bit part in Paramount's Love Story, now filming in New York. So there she was, decked out in a blue smock to do her role as a hospital admissions clerk. "It all started as a joke," said Charlotte, "and I'm just in it for the fun." Just as well; bit players can get less than $ 100 for a day's work...
...PHONE call jolted awake Paramount Senior Vice President Robert Evans at 4 o'clock one morning last fall. Walter Matthau was on the line-and on the rampage-from the Long Island location of A New Leaf. According to Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber, Matthau yelled: "If you don't get Stanley Jaffe off this picture, I'm leaving. Who is this twirp?" What, Evans asked, seemed to be the trouble between Walter and the 29-year-old who had just taken over as producer? Matthau explained that while shooting, "I had to go to the bathroom...
That, as Matthau now knows, was 1960s talk. Hollywood is at high noon. Stanley Jaffe has leapfrogged over Evans to become chief operating officer at Paramount. The high-priced stars are being cut down to size, and the masters of business administration are taking over the studios, or what is left of them. A new generation of film-company executives are suddenly trying to cope with economic realities that their fathers and uncles refused even to recognize. During the past few years, for example, 20th Century-Fox wasted a great deal of thought on whether and when to change...
...School. In 1969, five of the seven major film companies were in the red and, together, lost more than $100 million. Inevitably, conglomerate wheeler-dealers and proxy challengers have moved in, trying to cash in on such assets as film libraries and real estate. Gulf & Western Industries took over Paramount; Transamerica Corp. and Kinney National Service bought out United Artists and Warner Brothers...
...Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures, "you're sticking out your chin." Paramount and MGM are, with few exceptions, enforcing a $2,000,000 limit...