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...Star. That sort of economic discipline was thought impossible until last year, when the Peter Fonda-Dennis Hopper production, Easy Rider, hit Hollywood the way the Volkswagen hit Detroit. Shot on a starvation budget of $400,000, the film is expected to gross $30 million-a reminder that people 30 and under account for 75% of the U.S. box office...
...Easy Rider belt is tightening around the necks of prima donna producers and directors with a record of bringing pictures in late and overbudget. Blake Edwards, whose The Great Race came in at 100% over, and his wife Julie Andrews, no longer surefire box office since Star!, are reportedly being paid a $1,000,000 settlement by MGM not to shoot their previously committed film, She Loves...
...hood pins, warned that "In ten seconds your resistance will self-destruct." But by November, the ads showed a similar model colored a muted gold, and the value-stressing headline was: "We built more car into the car." Chevy is also emphasizing comfort and resale value in its "big rider" campaign for the Impala...
...roll, Scottish reels, the sound of Ontario Anglican church worshipers raising their voices in hymns on Sunday morning. The lyrics are spiritual and timeless. In Robertson's The Weight, written for the group's first Capitol album, Music from Big Pink (1968) and heard in the movie Easy Rider, cascading lines of melody combine with mock-serious lyrics to bring an Old Testament character face to face with a 1970 rock musician...
...based on Arlo Guthrie's humorous song. "Alice's Restaurant Massacre"), it is nonetheless one of the most depressing films of this year or any other. Love dope, sex, money, utopianism, political action-none of these phenomena can offer salvation to Arlo and his friends. And, unlike Easy Rider, this film does not provide vicious villains to blame all our troubles...