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Money still means freedom to her, but in a day when a Brando or a Redford can make up to $2 million for one picture, her earnings are relatively modest. Nashville netted her only $12,000, The Late Show $100,000. She estimates her annual income at $200,000. Partly out of caution, partly out of preference, she lives modestly. She and her crew of three or four travel economy class-"I could afford first, but it seems to me to be an insult to my family and the life we've known...
With an all-star cast-Robert Redford, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery -Producer Joseph Levine claims to have already received enough backing from eager distributors to cover his $25 million outlay for A Bridge Too Far. The saga of the abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think...
Women, who dominated the screens in the '30s and '40s, still make Hollywood a little nervous, however. "It has yet to be proven that there's a market for strong female roles," says Paramount Executive Richard Sylbert. "Traditionally, women go to the movies to see Robert Redford and Paul Newman. But maybe times are changing." Producer Dan Melnick takes a somewhat more optimistic view: "If a few of these pictures do very well at the box office, we may rediscover the 1940s all over again...
...PRESIDENT'S MEN. Redford-Hoffman as Woodward-Bernstein break the Watergate story in Alan J. Pakula's superbly atmospheric, intelligently controlled film that manages at once to be raffish, slightly paranoiac and politically acute...
Mike's a pretty busy guy, but you can reach him by writing him c/o Winthrop House Superintendent. As far as looks go, I've heard more than one person say that Mike is the spitting image of Robert Redford--with plastic surgery, a bad nose job and black hair...