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...resemblance does not end there. Even some of their critics compare the Go-Go Boys to Hollywood's founding fathers, who snorted when anyone talked about art in films and were devoted to making money. "They are like the old studio moguls; they eat, sleep and breathe pictures," says J. Lee Thompson, a 50-year show-biz veteran who is directing one of their thrillers, Murphy's Law. "The whole industry used to be like that. It's not now." Globus agrees: "The moguls cared to make money like we care to make money--so that they could make more...
...other regular folks. Republican Conte was a friend of Rockwell's and helped get a stop sign put up so cars would not screech out into the street in front of Rockwell's place, causing the artist to fear that an auto might crash into his studio. Rockwell wanted to paint Conte, but the Congressman never found time, and the artist died...
...young manhood is retailed at too great length, in a mournful chronicle of false starts, wrong turnings, jobs he did not get, jobs he regretted taking. Schneider alludes too briefly to two fundamental debates: between devotees of an external, technical approach to acting and believers in the Actors Studio "method" of fusing a character with one's own psyche; between "realist" writers who seek to simulate life and "theatricalists" who emphasize that they are staging an artifice, a show. He unflatteringly evokes such figures as Walter Kerr and Mary Martin, and demonstrates by his own example that success...
Before he went to Geneva last year to meet with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan broadcast a brief message on television and radio to the people of the world. In the Voice of America studio during the preparations, a slight, bearded figure hovered at the elbow of the President...
...Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent just to get through the studio gate. The goal for women directors is to persuade the male power elite that they are not some exotic Other, not the Not Quite Us. Just moviemakers...