Word: poseidons
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...Liza Minnelli, has been an utter flop that contributed heavily to the studio's first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors like Hal Ashby (Shampoo) can earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie...
...After Poseidon Adventure, I fear cruising on an ocean liner. After Airport and its followup, I cringe at the thought of flight. Towering Inferno gives me indigestion before I arrive for dinner at my favorite restaurant on the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel Building. Jaws [June 23] now forces me to abandon my vacation spot on Cape Hatteras in favor of the safety of the Allegheny River. Ah, the brilliance of Hollywood! In one short year it has transformed Americans into cowering paranoids whose only security is found in the tenth row of a darkened cinema...
...shadow, mustached and anonymous, sitting in his car playing magnetic chess, inconspicuous in a plain coat and tie. Hackman works wonders with a part like this: when he isn't cast as the big blustering shove-around of Popeye Doyle or Scarecrow, or squandered in a mistake like The Poseidon Adventure, he's our best interpreter of the middle-class presence: not the hero, or the anti-hero, but the unhero, making his own blind...
...going to be a disaster film in more ways than one. After all the genre included such winners as Tora! Tora! Tora! (which destroyed what was, when assembled for the film, the world's 14th largest airforce, and nearly drove its producers, Twentieth Century Fox, into bankruptcy) and the Poseidon Adventure, whose unexpected, (and undeserved) success spawned the current crop of wipe-'em-off-the-ceiling films...
...dates back to 1973 when the Navy announced that it had chosen an 8,500-acre tract at Bangor near the northwestern corner of the state of Washington as the home base for its Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris and Poseidon as nuclear deterrents-the Navy planned a $600 million complex with an estimated population of as many as 55,000 people. But the tract borders Hood Canal, a deep marine estuary leading off Puget Sound, and the more that local environmentalists learned about the Navy's plan the more...