Word: previewers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company started suggesting cuts and compromises and refused to give him a definite opening date for the movie. Cassavetes quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters to the chain of command and in general exhausted the entire executive branch of Columbia Pictures. Wearily, they finally backed...
...Segal's a terrific fellow, terrific," Gordon said, "and his book is the greatest thing that has happened to Harvard in recent years. I saw a preview of the movie. It's an unbelievable tear-jerker. And I met Ali McGraw there. Said I was a friend of Segal's and buttered up to her. She said. 'You run in the Boston Marathon with Segal, don't you?' Made me feel great...
...preview of how the IRS could block the efforts of an ecology-minded legal organization was shown early this year, when the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. made an application to the IRS for tax-exempt status. N.R.D.C. lawyers claim they were told that they would be granted the exemption for legal activities only if they cleared prospective lawsuits beforehand. N.R.D.C. says that one of its proposed suits, contesting strip-mining practices in Kentucky, has already been effectively vetoed...
Reporting this week's cover story on Film Director Mike Nichols was no exception for Sandy or for New York Correspondent Mary Cronin and Researcher Georgia Harbison. Their assignment started, appropriately enough, with an exclusive Los Angeles preview of Catch-22, which Nichols has adapted from Joseph Heller's bestseller. "I've never flown 3,000 miles to see a movie before," remarked Georgia. Actually, she flew 6,000 miles, because she was back in New York the following day, tracking down nearly a dozen of Mike's earlier associates and coworkers...
...about the attack. It was an omission that raised more hackles than necessary. When G.O.P. Senator George Aiken finally got the news, he recalls, "I counted slowly?up to about 12,000." Finally, an hour before he went on television, Nixon gave 40 congressional leaders and other officials a preview of the speech. "You've got to take things as they are," he told them, attempting to illustrate his dilemma in Indochina with a personal anecdote. It concerned a young woman who once told him that his face did not project well on TV. "This is the face...