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...would have been bigger than "Love Story." Robert Redford was supposed to screen his new morality play, the movie "Quiz Show," for first-years next Tuesday, and the Crimson Key had even printed the event on its Freshman Week T-shirts...
...last week, Redford canceled the show, saying he couldn't make the September 20 date he had originally suggested. Like the groom at the conclusion of the 1967 film "The Graduate," Harvard officials--who had scrambled to reschedule a host of activities to accommodate Redford and his film about the '50s TV game show scandals--were left standing at the altar...
...happened, Toby Brown did not write his screenplay and did not give up his practice. But almost any enthusiastic amateur might have spurred Crisis in the Hot Zone into production faster and with happier results than the Hollywood royalty -- Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, director Ridley Scott and producer Lynda Obst -- to whom 20th Century Fox entrusted this $50 million thriller. Nearly two years after Preston's article appeared -- time enough for him to expand it into a book, The Hot Zone, due in stores in a few weeks -- the film had not begun shooting. Last week, in fact, it looked...
Back at Hot Zone, Redford, Foster and Scott were all hoping to make a good picture. But they could never agree on what that picture was. Scott wanted a thriller, a true-life version of Alien, his 1979 sci-fi horror epic, that was strong on hardware and icky special effects, with maybe an ecological message. Redford, who signed on for $8 million and who had script approval, wanted an ecological message movie about a heroic virologist from the Centers for Disease Control -- his role. Foster ($6 million and script approval) wanted an ecological thriller about a heroic Army pathologist...
...Golden Globe Award, a New York Film Critics Circle citation and, as of last week, an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Schindler's List. In September moviegoers will see him as Charles van Doren, that fallen savant of '50s TV, in Robert Redford's much touted Quiz Show. After that, who can say? Spielberg can: "If he picks the right roles and doesn't forget the theater, I think he can eventually be Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier...