Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...special status and power of Austria's musicians, the French-based investment firm Investors Overseas Services has now started a mutual-fund service exclusively for them - the first time such a program been offered to musicians anywhere in the world. While it is too early to predict the success of I.O.S.'s unusual venture there can be no doubt, as a company official said last week, that "the money is there...
...there are bound to be many ambitious failures or cold, calculated imitations. Still, occasionally, one victory can change the world-or at least the part of it that produces films. Bonnie and Clyde is a conspicuous victory. It has proved to the industry that the "new movie" and "popular success" are not antithetical terms. Hollywood has sometimes acted as if money and art were incompatible. At worst, they can come together in a marriage of convenience. At best, they may even get to like each other...
Undeniably, part of the scandal and success of Bonnie and Clyde stems from its creative use of what has always been a good box-office draw: violence. But what matters most about Bonnie and Clyde is the new freedom of its style, expressed not so much by camera trickery as by its yoking of disparate elements into a coherent artistic whole-the creation of unity from in congruity. Blending humor and horror, it draws the audience in sympathy toward its antiheroes. It is, at the same time, a commentary on the mindless daily violence of the American...
Bonnie and Clyde has also brought the metamorphosis of success to its scenarists, Robert Benton and David Newman. They began thinking about the movie four years ago in New York City, after mulling over the films of Francois Truffaut-Jules and Jim and Shoot the Piano Player. At the time, Benton and Newman were house satirists at Esquire, writing sophomoric advice to college boys like how to fake mononucleosis. The Dillinger Days, a book about crime in the '30s, crossed their desk. The way they like to tell it, a figurative light bulb appeared over their heads when they...
Nevertheless, the trend seems to be toward more demographic analysis and away from numbers alone. Apart from that, sponsors find CBS a little more expensive than its two rivals. Ratings success is spoiling not only CBS's time sales but also the established stars of the long-running hits behind that success. The headliners hold out for salary boosts that force the network to charge higher prices for those shows than their ratings alone would command. CBS, which bills itself as "The Network of the Stars," gets slightly more than $50,000 per average prime-time minute; NBC asks...