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...indictments of practices in the $3.2 billion-a-year film industry. Said Hollywood Lawyer Ronald Litz: "The custom in Hollywood is that you get away with as much as you can until you're caught." Litz won a $225,000 settlement from Columbia for Robert Redford and Director Sydney Pollack, who contended they had been denied their fair share of the profit from The Way We Were...
BOBBY DEERFIELD Directed by Sydney Pollack Screenplay by Alvin Sargent Romance is a function of frustration...
...does not want to make Bobby Deerfield sound like heavy going. Director Pollack has almost flawlessly understated its case. The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing. And in Al Pacino he has one of the few actors who can play narcissism without seeming to be a lummox, while Marthe Keller finds a steely spine in her characterization of what might have been your standard movie kook. She is vulnerable without being pathetic, compelling without being neurotic...
...summed up in three words: money, tenure and perspective. Portuges says the problem is not finding people qualified to teach women's studies, but keeping them. Budget cutbacks at UMass have hurt the program by removing personnel. Women's studies professors are not receiving tenure at Penn either, Pollack says, "because they are women. They haven't had the experience and amount of publication men have...
Preston Pollock recognizes the paradox inherent in "New Boston." "The Christian Science Center is a combination of pompousass architecture and corporate necessity," snaps Pollack, an architect at Professional Designs Incorporated. The Christian Science Church and its world headquarters, Boston's answer to the Vatican, focus the contradiction between collective needs and private purpose: a corporate monument rising symbolically above the decaying tenements of the poor and turning its back on the human needs of urban working people unable to buy a decent human environment. Pollock is an architect who must deal with contradictions like that--his firm is employed...