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...novel Lost Horizon, Shangri-La was a valley of delicate beauty and perfect serenity set against a backdrop of soaring Tibetan mountains. To Movie Producer Ross Hunter, Shangri-La is Burbank, Calif. The mountain range is only 600 ft. long (not bad by studio standards) and made of plaster; in Hollywood, serenity is a realm that lies only beyond the fourth martini or the third joint. Otherwise, Hunter's Shangri-La-the set for a new musical version of Hilton's novel-has it all over the novel, as well as Frank Capra's 1937 black...
...four-acre set cost $500,000 -more than some entire movies in today's budget-squeezed Hollywood. Next to the plaster mountains are two 40-ft. waterfalls, four glistening pools, and an 80-ft.-high Greco-Roman-Byzantine-Gothic-Sung-Khmer Lamasery that owes more to Hilton the hotelier than Hilton the novelist. "It's like having a dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John...
...which the city has already spent $122,500. But when Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped a load of plaster. The art people are out to rape this city." But when art lovers began to ante up private contributions, Rizzo relented. If they pay for Government's bills, he said, "we'll find a spot...
...horse race, their dramatically understated encounters somehow do not seem sadistic. Francis' heroes, among other things, have been hung up to freeze in icy tack rooms (Nerve) and had a broken hand rebroken with a poker (Odds Against). Yet they regularly turn up-all grit and sticking plaster-to ride or retaliate, faster than anyone could have suspected. Their sudden recoveries seem convincing partly because Francis, like all steeplechase jockeys, fell regularly, and knows the pain of riding with assorted broken ribs and collarbones...
...Murphy explained that Harvard had told him that the building was empty and could be used for firefighting training. When the Nixons told Murphy that the building was still inhabited, he called off the trainees who had by then transformed the building's third floor into a shambles of plaster and wood...