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...remains to be seen whether the money was well spent: advance ticket sales are holding steady at $5.6 million, and the production has already broken house records at the Gershwin Theater, Broadway's biggest. But weekly operating costs exceed $300,000, and according to Producer Martin Starger, Starlight would have to play to almost 90% of capacity just to recoup its investment within a year...
...moment, it is Bogdanovich who feels disposable. He has his biggest hit since Paper Moon a dozen years ago, yet he has virtually disowned Mask. Seems Producer Martin Starger cut two scenes from the film and replaced music by Bruce Springsteen (Rocky's favorite rock star) with four Bob Seger songs. Twenty-two directors, including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Frank Capra, came to Bogdanovich's defense; so did an impromptu protest committee, Moviegoers Against Studio Kibitzing (M.A.S.K.). So the picture offers two parables: one of Hollywood devouring its own, one of the man in the lion mask. The second...
...There's a void in the motion picture world for ... whatever this is," smiles the movie's Executive Producer Martin Starger, U.S. representative of British Producer Sir Lew Grade. Just what it will be is hard to pin down: maybe something like Punch and Judy done according to Mad Magazine...
...overextended ourselves in this form," says NBC Program Chief Lawrence White. As a result, notes Fred Silverman, CBS'S vice president of programming, there is a "public thirst for comedy" and for positive, nonviolent drama. Both executives agree with the president of ABC entertainment, Martin Starger, that "there's going to be a drift away from the law and order shows." If so, the drift will be so gradual as to be barely noticeable this year. Among the midseason replacements being readied for January are at least two more cop shows...
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