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...Pollock, chairman of MCA's motion picture group: "The best thing that can be done for The Last Temptation of Christ at this time is to make it available to the American people and allow them to draw their own conclusions, based on fact not fallacy." But Tim Penland, a born-again marketing expert once hired by Universal to placate conservative critics and now a critic himself, believes the six-week jump will unleash more Fundamentalist anger. "It's the most serious mistake a studio has made in decades," he says...
Scorsese, the director of Taxi Driver and The Color of Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections...
...equal knack for Shakespeare, Shaw and Sheridan blossomed in New York's APA repertory company under the direction of Ellis Rabb, her first husband (her ties with APA and Rabb both ended in divorce last spring); and John Ehle, 41, native North Carolina author (The Free Man); in Penland...
...shock was felt most keenly by Livermore's other paper, the Herald and News, a triweekly that has been around for 86 years. Some of the Independ ent's sudden growth has come right out of the Herald and News's ad accounts. Says Robert Penland, Herald and News publisher: "We're probably going to have to work a little harder." Even if he does, his new competitor will retain one distinct advantage. Robert Penland sells his paper; Joan Kinney gives her Independent away free...
Died. Theodore A. Penland, 101, who as Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic presided in 1949 at its 83rd and final encampment (attended by six members); in Vancouver, Wash...