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...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 can end up costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally must gross $18 million before it covers overhead and distribution costs and even begins returning...
Battered Wing. The evening's other winners (Lee Grant for Shampoo, George Burns for The Sunshine Boys) were honored for supporting performances in films made snugly within the studio system. Cuckoo, distributed by United Artists, took 14 years to get together and took off on a battered wing and a profane prayer. Movie rights to Ken Kesey's intricate, explosive 1962 novel had been owned by Kirk Douglas for well over a decade. Douglas had played the role of the roustabout McMurphy on Broadway, and wanted to make the movie himself. There were no backers. Prospective producers were...
...answers. But in time Carter grew irritated with Bancroft's protests and said: "If you say he [Bailey] doesn't have the right to object I'll tell you to go soak your head." (Albert Johnson, Bailey's assistant, later gave Bancroft a bottle of shampoo...
...year-especially doctors. By some estimates, the flow could reach $1 billion in 1976. Tax-shelter money now at least partly finances the production of more than half of all the films shown in the U.S., including such recent big-name flicks as Shampoo, Chinatown, Breakout and The Great Gatsby...
Even though I have tried and appreciated almost every known shampoo or deodorant on the market, the only product I have ever been moved to praise in writing is your pre-registration, freshman issue of The Crimson. I sat down and read it cover-to-cover, enjoying every single article (even...