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...Golden Pond burnishes age with the art of Hepburn and Fonda...
...begins with images of serenity: wild flowers gently stirring in an almost imperceptible spring breeze; loons, bright-eyed and sleek, afloat on untroubled waters; the lake itself shimmering in the backlight of a dying sun. The first glimpses of Golden Pond are washed with the kind of burnished light that colors our recollections of better places and better times past...
...first glimpses of the aged couple who are reopening their comfortable old summer house are suffused with a similar light, though that is more a trick of the moviegoer's memory than of the cinematographer's art. For Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda arrive in On Golden Pond bearing with them not merely their vacation baggage but a montage of beloved images assembled from a combined 95 years of motion picture acting in 129 features, not to mention uncounted stage and television appearances...
...comes as a gift that the vehicle is literately written by Ernest Thompson and sensitively directed by Mark Rydell. On Golden Pond is a mature movie, and for the first time in years that does not make it an oddity. The youth audience the film industry has been wooing for more than a decade is growing up. According to an industry source, 43% of those Americans who regularly go to movies are now over 29 (only 25% were in that age group eight years ago). Very few major movies aimed at adolescents are being released this holiday season. Instead...
Last year Binn's company made about $220 million worth of deals, many involving major corporations. Among his clients: Rolls-Royce, Uni-royal and Chesebrough-Pond's. One swap involves the Cosco Chemicals Co. of Indianapolis, a division of Kidde, Inc. Cosco is boosting its production of cleansing products by about 20%, trading the cleansers to Binn for $500,000 worth of services including TV and radio advertising time. Binn plans to trade the cleansers to Hilton and Sheraton hotels, receiving in return room spaces plus food and bar credits, which he will offer to other Atwood Richards...